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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 svn. To 'check out' 4Pane into a dir called ~/filemanagers/4Pane, open a terminal, cd to ~/filemanagers/, and do:
    svn co http://fourpane.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fourpane/trunk 4Pane
    Then follow the instructions in Installing.


Getting a Binary Package


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

Rpms

First tell rpm about the 4Pane public key. Get superuser privileges with su or sudo, then do:
rpm --import http://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 http://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:
i386 x86_64 Source rpms
SUSE 11.3   11.4   12.1     11.3   11.4   12.1 SUSE srpm
Fedora 13   14   15   16 13   14   15   16 Fedora srpm
Mandriva 2010.2    2011.0     2010.2     2011.0 Mandriva srpm
Mageia 1        1     Mageia srpm

Alternatively, if you've already installed the wxWidgets rpm, you should be able to download and install in one step. e.g. for SUSE 11.3 i386:
rpm -Uvh http://www.4pane.co.uk/0.8.0/rpm/SuSE/i386/4Pane-0.8.0-1.suse11.3.i586.rpm


If you are using an older version of these distros, there may be a 0.7.0 build available: see the previous releases page.

Repositories

If you use a debian-based distro (or PCLinuxOS), there are the following repositories:

Available Versions Repository
Debian lenny   squeeze http://www.4pane.co.uk/debian/
Ubuntu lucid   maverick   natty   oneiric http://www.4pane.co.uk/ubuntu/
Mepis lenny   squeeze http://www.4pane.co.uk/mepis/
PCLinuxOS 2010.2 http://www.4pane.co.uk/pclinuxos/

The ubuntu packages will also work on kubuntu/xubuntu/lubuntu and on mint (the squeeze packages work on mint debian). PCLinuxOS 2010.2 also works on more recent releases.


These repositories also provide debuginfo debs, should you need them; and they still contain some 0.5.1/0.6.0/0.7.0 builds for no-longer-supported versions of the distros. Alternatively this link lets you access the 0.5.1/0.6.0/0.7.0 pages.


You'll need to tell apt about the 4Pane public key by doing, as superuser:
apt-key adv --fetch-keys http://www.4pane.co.uk/4Pane.asc


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 (or for PCLinuxOS, an rpm) by clicking the appropriate link below, then install it with dpkg as described in Installing.

i386 x86_64
Debian lenny    squeeze lenny    squeeze
Ubuntu lucid   maverick natty oneiric    lucid   maverick natty oneiric
Mepis lenny   squeeze lenny   squeeze
PCLinuxOS 2010.2   


For Knoppix 6.0 and 6.2 use the debian lenny i386 package. For Knoppix 6.4.3 and later, use debian squeeze i386.

Again, should you be using an older version of these distros, there may be a 0.7.0, 0.6.0 or 0.5.1 package available: this link lets you access the their pages.


Others

Slackware

There are slackware tgz packages as follows:
13.1 13.37 Source package
Package    i386   x86_64    i386   x86_64 src
Digital Signature asc     asc asc     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 -xzf) and follow the instructions in its README file.


You need to have the wxWidgets (wxGTK) runtime library on your system. Get the one that matches your system, from either i386 or x86_64. (There aren't 13.37 wxGTK packages at the moment; but the 13.1 ones work fine, and were used to create the 4Pane binaries.)


Gentoo and Sabayon

There is an overlay and ebuild that will work for both gentoo and sabayon. If you use layman, do the following in a terminal, as root:
layman -f -o http://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 http://4pane.co.uk/gentoo/overlay.tar.gz
tar -xzf ./overlay.tar.gz
You need to tell portage about this, as described in http://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


Zenwalk

4Pane is in the Zenwalk repository, so you can get it as usual with netpkg. However that package is of an old version of 4Pane, and was built for Zenwalk 5.2.
Here are 0.8.0 packages that work better in Zenwalk 6.4 and Zenwalk 7.0. Download the appropriate one, then install it using installpkg (you'll need to have first installed the wxgtk package with netpkg).


Puppy

For 4Pane to work, you will need to have installed wxWidgets. Puppy doesn't currently have a recent-enough package for this, so there's one here: wxGTK_LIB-2.8.9-i486.pet. The 4Pane package is: 4pane-0.8.0-i486.pet.

These packages are known to work on (at least) Puppy 4.3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.5 and 5.2.8. Download the packages with wget or SeaMonkey, then install them as usual with Puppy package manager.

There is also an older wxWidgets lib package, wxGTK_LIB-2.8.7-i486.pet, in case anyone finds it useful. And here are the corresponding dev packages: wxGTK_DEV-2.8.9-i486.pet and wxGTK_DEV-2.8.7-i486.pet. You don't need these to run 4Pane, only if you want to build your own pets that depend on wxWidgets.





Debug rpms

Few people should need these, but there are also debuginfo rpms available:
i386 debug       x86_64 debug
SUSE 11.3   11.4   12.1     11.3   11.4   12.1
Fedora 13   14   15   16 13   14   15   16
Mandriva 2010.2    2011.0        2010.2     2011.0
Mageia 1        1    


The PCLinuxOS debuginfo rpms are in its repository.