Deepin File Manager is a file management tool independently developed by Deepin Technology, featuring functions such as searching, copying, trash management, compression/decompression and viewing file properties.

The master branch is current development branch, build dependencies may change without updating README.md. Please refer to ./debian/control for an accurate list of build dependencies

• cmake,
• doxygen,
• debhelper (>=9),
• pkg-config,
• libffmpegthumbnailer-dev,
• libpolkit-agent-1-dev,
• dde-tray-loader-dev,
• libtag1-dev,
• libdmr-dev,
• libicu-dev,
• libxcb-ewmh-dev,
• libdeepin-pdfium-dev,
• libssl-dev,
• libgtest-dev,
• libgmock-dev,
• liblucene++-dev,
• libdocparser-dev,
• libboost-filesystem-dev,
• libsecret-1-dev,
• libpoppler-cpp-dev,
• libcryptsetup-dev,
• libpcre2-dev,
• libdde-shell-dev (>= 0.0.10),
• deepin-desktop-base | deepin-desktop-server | deepin-desktop-device,
• qt6-base-dev,
• qt6-base-private-dev,
• qt6-svg-dev,
• qt6-multimedia-dev,
• qt6-tools-dev,
• qt6-tools-dev-tools,
• qt6-declarative-dev,
• qt6-5compat-dev,
• libdtk6widget-dev,
• libdtk6gui-dev,
• libdtk6core-dev,
• libdtk6core-bin,
• libdtk6declarative-dev,
• libdfm6-io-dev,
• libdfm6-mount-dev,
• libdfm6-burn-dev,
• libdfm6-search-dev,
• libpolkit-qt6-1-dev,
• libxcb-xfixes0-dev (>= 1.10~),
• libopenjp2-7-dev,
• liblcms2-dev,
• libdeepin-service-framework-dev,
• libheif-dev

1. Make sure you have installed all dependencies.

The package name may vary between different distros. If dde-file-manager is available in your distro, it is a better idea to check the packaging script provided by your distro.

Assume you are using Deepin or another Debian-based distro that provides dde-file-manager:

$ git clone https://github.com/linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager
$ cd dde-file-manager
$ sudo apt build-dep ./

1. Build:

$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
$ cmake --build build

1. Install:

$ sudo cmake --build build --target install

The executable binary file could be found at /usr/bin/dde-file-manager

A debian folder is provided to build the package under the deepin linux desktop distribution. To build the package, use the following command:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -nc -b # build binary package(s)

Execute dde-file-manager

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dde-file-manager is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later