nautilus-follow-symlink / caja-follow-symlink

nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus (GNOME Desktop) extension.

caja-follow-symlink is a caja (MATE Desktop) extension.

They adds a menu entry on symbolic links to directories which open the pointed directory (the real path).

They do so both when right clicking on the folder icon or on the contents of an opened symbolic link.

Homepage: https://p.outlyer.net/nautilus-follow-symlink

Installation

I provide both deb and rpm packages to download and install manually, e.g.:

dpkg -i nautilus-follow-symlink_1.2.0-pon.1_amd64.deb

For deb-based distributions you may add my repository to your sources:

echo 'deb http://packages.outlyer.net/debian stable main contrib' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packages.outlyer.net.list
sudo wget http://packages.outlyer.net/public_key.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.outlyer.net.gpg
sudo apt update

Building from source

Download the tarball and follow the traditional configure + make workflow, e.g.:

tar xvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0.tar.gz
cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.2.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

Building from the git repository

Building from the raw source in the repository requires the GNU auto* set of tools.

git clone https://git.outlyer.net/outlyer/nautilus-follow-symlink/
cd nautilus-follow-symlink/nautilus
./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install