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Getting 4Pane


There are three ways to acquire 4Pane:
  • Download and install a binary package. See below.

  • If there isn't a package available for your distro, or you prefer not to use it, you can download the source tarball from SourceForge, then follow the instructions in Installing.

  • You can get the very latest changes and fixes from git. To 'download' 4Pane into a dir called ~/filemanagers/:
    Install git if it's not already present.
    Open a terminal, cd to ~/filemanagers/, and do:
    git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/fourpane/git4pane 4Pane
    A new dir called ~/filemanagers/4Pane will have been created. Now follow the instructions in Installing.

Getting a Binary Package

Important information about the 4Pane signing key

The original 4Pane signing key, created in 2008, was DSA, and some distros now treat such keys as untrusted.

All current packages are signed with a new, more secure, key. So if you downloaded a 4Pane key before October 2016, you now need to download the new one.
The updated 4Pane.asc file will work both for old and new packages.



There are binary packages available for recent versions of most of the main distros.

Rpms

Recent versions of the main rpm-using distros have official 4Pane packages. However not all releases have the latest 4Pane version; I provide rpms for those.

First tell rpm about the 4Pane public key. Get superuser privileges with su or sudo, then do:
rpm --import https://www.4pane.co.uk/4Pane.asc

Or you can do the same thing in two steps: first download the key file with wget, then install it.
wget https://www.4pane.co.uk/4Pane.asc
rpm --import ./4Pane.asc

Then download the appropriate rpm by clicking on its link, and follow the instructions in Installing:
x86_64 Source rpms etc
openSUSE 15.4   srpm translations
Fedora 36   37   srpm
OpenMandriva 4.3 and 5.0 srpm
Mageia 8 and 9 srpm
PCLinuxOS 22.07 srpm

Alternatively, if you've already installed the wxWidgets rpm, you should be able to download and install in one step. e.g. for openSUSE 15.4:
rpm -Uvh https://www.4pane.co.uk/8.0/rpm/SuSE/x86_64/4pane-8.0-1.suse15.4.unofficial.x86_64.rpm


If you are using an older version of these distros, there may be a 7.0 build available: see the previous releases page.

Repositories

NB: 4Pane is now packaged by debian and ubuntu, and so can just be installed through apt in the usual way. However the current official packages for debian bullseye and ubuntus pre-23.04, are unlikely to be upgraded, so here are 8.0 ones for current releases.

If you use a debian-based distro, there are the following repositories:

Available Versions Repository
Debian bullseye https://www.4pane.co.uk/debian/
Ubuntu jammy kinetic https://www.4pane.co.uk/ubuntu/

The ubuntu packages will also work on kubuntu/xubuntu/lubuntu etc and on standard mint.


These repositories still contain some 0.5.1 to 7.0 builds for no-longer-supported versions of the distros. Alternatively this link lets you access the 0.5.1 to 7.0 pages.
They also provide debuginfo debs, and for ubuntu bionic and later there are dbgsym ddebs; however the latter may not be 'seen' by apt, so I've put their direct-download links below.

You will need to tell apt about the 4Pane public key by doing, as superuser:
apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://www.4pane.co.uk/4Pane.asc
Note that this now points to an updated key that works for all 4Pane repos. You don't need to remove any old key first, you can add the new one on top of it.

You can either use synaptic or equivalent, or add the appropriate url to /etc/apt/sources.list by hand (see here for details).


If you don't want to use a repository directly, you can instead download a .deb file by clicking the appropriate link below, then install it with dpkg as described in Installing.

deb dbgsym ddeb
Debian bullseye    bullseye   
Ubuntu    jammy   kinetic      jammy   kinetic  


Again, should you be using an older version of these distros, there may be a 6.0 or earlier package available: this link lets you access their pages.


Others

Slackware

There are slackware tgz packages as follows:
15.0 Source package
Package    x86_64 src
Digital Signature asc asc



Download the package with wget or a browser, then install it as usual with pkginstall (don't forget to install wxWidgets first).

To build from the source package, extract it (tar -xf) and follow the instructions in its README file. https://slackware.pkgs.org/15.0/alienbob-x86_64/wxGTK3-3.2.1-x86_64-1alien.txz.html http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/wxGTK3


You need to have the wxWidgets (wxGTK) runtime libraries on your system. There are currently suitable packages for slackware 15.0 at these sites: wxGTK3-3.2.1 and wxGTK3-3.2.1.

Gentoo and derivatives

There is an overlay and ebuild that should work for gentoo and derivatives. NB the overlay now requires git, so unless it's already installed you will need to emerge dev-vcs/git.

If you use layman, do the following in a terminal, as root:
layman -f -o https://4pane.co.uk/gentoo/overlay.xml -a 4Pane
emerge 4pane

If you don't use layman, make a suitably-named directory in for the ebuild, and download it:
cd /usr/portage/local && mkdir 4Pane && cd 4Pane
wget https://4pane.co.uk/gentoo/overlay.tar.gz
tar -xzf ./overlay.tar.gz
You need to tell portage about this, as described in https://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds#Local_Portage_Overlay. Here you will do this by adding a line PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/4Pane" to /etc/make.conf, using your favourite text editor. If there is already a PORTDIR_OVERLAY= line there, to avoid clobbering other overlays you should instead append the line: PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/portage/local/4Pane"
Then do emerge 4pane





Debug rpms

You don't really need these, but there are also debuginfo rpms available:
debug info debug source
Fedora 36   37   36   37
OpenMandriva 4.3
Mageia 8 8 8
PCLinuxOS 2022.07