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May 1, 2011
Thunar, Nautilus, exo-utils and “the location is not a folder” error.
Installing Thunar in gnome causes Nautilus to show a “the location is not a folder” error.
The problem is a thunar dependency called exo-utils.
Removing exo-utils also removes thunar. Some of us need to have both thunar and nautilus installed in gnome:
Since the problem is exo-utils, I have built a thunar .deb without the exo-utils dependency.
Here is how for 64bit:
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/69753654/thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb dpkg-deb -x thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb tmpdir dpkg-deb --control thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb tmpdir/DEBIAN gedit tmpdir/DEBIAN/control
Remove ‘exo-utils’ from the ‘Depends’ line and save
dpkg -b tmpdir thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64-no_exo-utils_dependency.deb sudo apt-get remove exo-utils sudo dpkg -i thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64-no_exo-utils_dependency.deb sudo apt-get -f install
Or
Download the package from here:
https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/downloads/thunar_1.2.1-3ubuntu2_amd64-no_exo-utils_dependency.deb
Done!
Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.
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July 1st, 2011 at 2:20 am
mmc wrote on 2011-05-31: #10
If you want to simply fix the opening of files but retain XFCE/exo you can simply open "exo-preferred-applications" and change the preferred "file manager" under "utilities" back to "Thunar"
I'm guessing the install of XFCE changes this default, anyway flipping it back to thunar certainly fixes the behaviour in Unity for me. https://bugs.launchpad.net/exo/+bug/775640/commen…
July 7th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Yes, thank you.
However the idea here was to be able to have both file managers installed and have Nautilius as the Default.
July 11th, 2011 at 5:25 am
Thank you very very very much!
July 23rd, 2011 at 2:27 am
Thanks a lot! How do we prevent exo-utils from installing on update?
July 23rd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
You may "Lock Version" under the "Package" menu in Synaptic.
However, keep in mind that this may be addressed soon officially, as the bug has been recently confirmed in Launchpad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751374