fast 2pane file manager: Emelfm

coyotito · posted: 2016-12-26 16:08

A goodie I cannot be without on any pc, esp. for older, slow machines/netbooks.

Classic 2 pane file manager.

Do not use the successor Emelfm2, it's just slower not much else added.

Emelfm can be easily configured for individual needs.

So quick to f.ex se up symlinks and unpack archives with this.

In order to install it go to
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive"
linktext was:"https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive"
====================================

and set up Etch main repo from there. Install Emelfm.

Perfect beside mc and roxfiler.

thriftee · posted: 2016-12-27 05:26

I'm a big fan of Norton Commander pre windows and Midnight Commander on linux...

I tried adding etch main to repo list and installing with synaptic, but it said I had broken packages.

I tried again with apt-get and got errors...

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root@antix1:/home/demo# apt-get install emelfm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 emelfm : Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@antix1:/home/demo#

So, can you say how you install it onto antiX 16? I have the 386 full version.

fatmac · posted: 2016-12-27 11:42

I quite liked emelfm, but found that I just kept on using mc, so no longer worry about which file manager is on a distro, I just install mc if it isn't already there. __{{emoticon}}__

thriftee · posted: 2016-12-27 17:19

I don't recommend anyone try installing this. After 3 hours of trying I can't get around the key errors. None of the internet suggestions work.

Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://archive.debian.org"
linktext was:"http://archive.debian.org"
====================================
etch/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1356982504

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PS
Afterwards, I tried installing it from source, but it looks pretty hopeless. It required gtk1.2 and that required glib1.2 and that conflicts with antix's version of xmms because it uses a different glib1.2. It didn't matter because there was no way I could even get things to compile.

All told, 4 or 5 hours spent, and it will take at least a an hour or two to remove all the things I had to install to try to install it.

I've always been a fan of 2 panel file managers and have been looking for for a lightweight one with drag and drop forever it seems.

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round 3
It doesn't look like I can remove the debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring.... it said:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libapt-pkg4.12
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  antix-archive-keyring apt apt-show-versions apt-utils debian-archive-keyring debian-keyring siduction-archive-keyring
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libapt-pkg4.12
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  apt debian-archive-keyring (due to apt)
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 800 kB of archives.
After this operation, 62.5 MB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
 ?]

So that looks like big time trouble...

Anyway, this led me to Double Commander and Worker, and they are on the debian repos, so I'm looking at them now

rayburn · posted: 2016-12-28 17:19

fatmac wrote:I quite liked emelfm, but found that I just kept on using mc, so no longer worry about which file manager is on a distro, I just install mc if it isn't already there. __{{emoticon}}__

Totally agree! That's exactly what I do myself. MC is just such a versatile file manager, I don't know how I would manage without it.

coyotito · posted: 2017-01-01 14:19

Sorry to hear about the dependency trouble.
I forgot, been a while since I did a fresh antiX install. Should have mentioned this..
Yes, in antiX it's best not to use the repo, just get the single package.
Have noticed the different library versions, have solved this by running Emelfm package through Alien to tgz and back as there are no real differences
that emelfm cares about. Easily converted for use in Slackware (not strictly needed, tgz pckages can be found).
One must definitely keep the antiX library versions.
Old, simple program, have it in Mint, Salix, antiX.
Yes mc rocks but I find this even easier for some archive and symlnk operations I do from time to time.

thriftee · posted: 2017-01-02 06:51

Thanks for coming back and explaining. Your alien based install did work. gdebi wasn't needed. I did a dpkg -i and that installed the converted .deb file.

Its a shame about the install, as I have to reload to recover because debian-keyring can't be deinstalled and took 50+ mb. I had assumed at the time that it could be deinstalled.

As for emelfm I agree its pretty good for a simpler X windows capable file manager. I'm still using SpaceFM and MC most of the time and like Double Commander, so not sure what I'll end up using long term.