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How can I "diff" two files with Nautilus?

rated 0 times [ 21] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 8565 / 3 Years ago, sat, october 30, 2021, 4:25:48

I have installed Meld and found out it's a great comparing tool. Unfortunately there is no integration with Nautilus 3.2. This means, I can't right click on files and select an option to open them in Meld for comparison.

I have seen in the tools comment that the tool need the diff-ext package to be installed. This package has been removed from Ubuntu universe, I am guessing because gtk 3.0. Even if I manually downloaded from source forge the diff-ext package, when I try to configure it the check fails with the message:

checking for DIFF_EXT... configure: error: Package requirements (libnautilus-extension >= 2.14.0 gconf-2.0 >= 2.14.0 gnome-vfs-module-2.0 >= 2.14) were not met:



No package 'libnautilus-extension' found

No package 'gconf-2.0' found

No package 'gnome-vfs-module-2.0' found

Ok, so from this output I gather that indeed gtk 2 is being required to install the diff extension to nautilus.

Now, my question is: Is there a possibility to integrate Meld into Nautilus? Or, are there any other diff based tool which integrate with current Nautilus? So gtk3 based.

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 if there was any doubt so far.

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answered 3 Years ago sconhoney · Accepted Answer

There is a useful python extension that incorporates Meld into Nautilus

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how to install

Obtain the source or the deb package from the authors website.

wget http://www.giuspen.com/software/nautilus-pyextensions_3.4.1-1_all.deb



sudo apt-get install python-nautilus

sudo dpkg -i nautilus-pyextensions_3.4.1-1_all.deb

Search for pyextension in Dash and run Nautilus PyExtension.

Activate the meld extension (install it if asked) and click the restart Nautilus toolbar option.

GConf error

In case you find an GConf related error when trying to open Nautilus PyExtension, install "gobject-introspection" and "gir1.2-gconf-2.0":

sudo apt-get install gobject-introspection

sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gconf-2.0