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johnywhy

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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[solved] Thunar on Chromebook Linux Can't Find gvfs

I believe it's Debian.

johnaweiss@penguin:~$ sudo apt-get -y install gvfs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gvfs is already the newest version (1.46.2-1).
gvfs set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
johnaweiss@penguin:~$ sudo apt-mark auto gvfs
gvfs set to automatically installed.

Last edited by johnywhy (2023-08-18 16:18:45)

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: [solved] Thunar on Chromebook Linux Can't Find gvfs

Do you also have gvfs-backends installed?

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johnywhy

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: [solved] Thunar on Chromebook Linux Can't Find gvfs

That's the fix.

Why was it missing?

Here's how i installed Thunar

sudo apt-get -y install thunar

Is there an alternative installation command for Thunar which would include gvfs-backends automatically?

Thanks!

Last edited by johnywhy (2023-08-18 16:21:50)

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ToZ

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Re: [solved] Thunar on Chromebook Linux Can't Find gvfs

If you run:

apt show thunar

...you will see that gvfs-backends is suggested. The distro has set it up this way.

I believe apt/apt-get have an "--install-suggests" parameter that will also install the suggested packages.

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