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	10.3 11.0 11.1	10.3 11.0 11.1	SUSE srpm
Mandriva	2008.1 2009.0 2009.1	2008.1 2009.0 2009.1	Mandriva srpm
Fedora	8 9 10 11	8 9 10 11	Fedora 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 11.0 i386:

rpm -Uvh http://www.4pane.co.uk/0.6.0/rpm/SuSE/i386/4Pane-0.6.0-1.suse11.0.i586.rpm

If you are using an older version of these distros, there may be a 0.5.1 build available: this link will take you to the 0.5.1 pages.

Repositories

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

	Available Versions	Repository
Debian	etch lenny	http://www.4pane.co.uk/debian/
Ubuntu	gutsy hardy intrepid jaunty	http://www.4pane.co.uk/ubuntu/
Mepis	etch lenny	http://www.4pane.co.uk/mepis/
PCLinuxOS	2007 2009.1	http://www.4pane.co.uk/pclinuxos/

(The Ubuntu packages will also work on Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Mint.)

These repositories still contain some 0.5.1 builds for no-longer-supported versions of the distros. Or this link will take you to the old 0.5.1 pages.

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	etch lenny	etch lenny
Ubuntu	gutsy hardy intrepid jaunty	gutsy hardy intrepid jaunty
Mepis	etch lenny	etch lenny
PCLinuxOS	2007 2009.1

For Knoppix 5.3.1 use the Debian etch i386 package; for 6.0 the lenny i386 one.

Again, should you be using an older version of these distros, there may be a 0.5.1 build available: this link will take you to the 0.5.1 pages.

Others

Slackware

There are slackware tgz packages as follows:

	12.0	12.1	12.2	Source package
Package	i386	i386	i386	src
Digital Signature	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 e.g. wxwidgets-2.8.9-i486-1gds.tgz or wxgtk-2.8.9-i486-1kjz.tgz from http://www.linuxpackages.net/). I used wxgtk-2.8.9-i486-1kjz.tgz, a 12.1 package, to make the 12.2 4Pane tgz as there isn't currently a 12.2 wxWidgets. It works anyway ;)

To build from the source package, extract it (tar -xzf) and follow the instructions in its README file.

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

Should you get a rather complicated error message during ./configure, that includes the phrase "No profile currently selected", run eselect wxwidgets, selecting the most recent version.

Zenwalk

4Pane is now in the Zenwalk repository, so you should be able to get it as usual with netpkg. However here is a package which can be downloaded, then installed using installpkg (you'll need to have 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-0.6.0-i486.pet.

These packages are known to work on Puppy 3.0, and 4.0 to 4.2. 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.

Damn Small Linux

DSL is a bit more complicated, and is discussed on this page.

Debug rpms

These are available for Mandriva and PCLinuxOS (but why would you need them? ;)

	i386	x86_64
Mandriva	2008.1 2009.0 2009.1	2008.1 2009.0 2009.1
PCLinuxOS	2007 2009