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cdo

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Registered: 2025-04-15

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Thunar 4.21.0 installation issue from tarball thunar-4.21.0.tar.xz 23-

Version information :

I am using thunar 4.18.4 but trying to install thunar-4.21.0

I am using XFCE 4.18 on Debian 12 with GTK 3.24.38

~/thunar-4.21.0$ uname -a
Linux debian 6.1.0-32-amd64 #1 (closed) SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.129-1 (2025-03-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce :

• I downloaded thunar rel 4.21.0 tarball from here https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/ : thunar-4.21.0.tar.xz 23-Mar-2025 10:50 1615060

• README.md says to run "./configure" but no such file available, only configure.ac is there :

  ~/thunar-4.21.0$ ./configure
  bash: ./configure: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

Added later 21 min 13 s:
I think I need to move to XFCE 4.20, actually... Right ?

Clio

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 118

Re: Thunar 4.21.0 installation issue from tarball thunar-4.21.0.tar.xz 23-

I think I need to move to XFCE 4.20, actually... Right ?

Yes.
The best way is:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
checkinstall

checkinstall is a package in the repo and must be installed. It creates a package that can be installed with dpkg -i, then the package manager knows about it too.