Comments on: Nautilus Hide – Easily Hide Files & Folders in Nautilus File Manager

By: Rune Millerjord

Rune Millerjord — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 11:39:12 +0000

In reply to Jon Loveless.

I had the same issue, and the links below helped me.

But the short version of that was: instead of using “cmake ..” I used “cmake {path to nautilus-hide}”.

And I got an issue missing xdotool, so a quick apt to install that one and I got to install nautilus-hide.

By: Divine

Divine — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:25:09 +0000

In reply to Jon Loveless.

Here are two links that might help:
-> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36989494/cmake-error-cmake-dont-find-source-directory-or-cmakelists-txt-installing-ogr

-> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24153845/opencv-ubuntu-12-04-cmake-error-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cm

By: Jon Loveless

Jon Loveless — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:54:08 +0000

I get an error:
jon@jon-Z68MA:~$ git clone https://github.com/brunonova/nautilus-hide.git
Cloning into ‘nautilus-hide’…
remote: Counting objects: 296, done.
remote: Total 296 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 296
Receiving objects: 100% (296/296), 55.24 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (133/133), done.
jon@jon-Z68MA:~$ mkdir build
jon@jon-Z68MA:~$ cd build
jon@jon-Z68MA:~/build$ cmake ..
CMake Error: The source directory “/home/jon” does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
Specify –help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
jon@jon-Z68MA:~/build$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
jon@jon-Z68MA:~/build$ cmake ..