Files

Building, Testing, and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

• meson
• valac
• libcanberra-dev
• libcloudproviders-dev >= 0.3.0
• libdbus-glib-1-dev
• libgail-3-dev
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libgit2-glib-1.0-dev
• libglib2.0-dev
• libgranite-dev >= 5.3.0
• libgtk-3-dev
• libhandy-1-dev >= 0.83.0
• libnotify-dev
• libpango1.0-dev
• libplank-dev
• libsqlite3-dev
• libunity-dev
• libzeitgeist-2.0-dev

Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use ninja install, then execute with io.elementary.files

sudo ninja install
io.elementary.files