New discovery in Debian

[RacerBG]

I will call it "dependency train"! But it's not funny at all...

I tried a few minimal installs of Debian with Openbox, Fluxbox and I3 WM just to discover that if I try to install program like PCManFM or Thunar, or Nemo for file management in the *boxes I must download about ~50% of the desktop itself... I love Debian but if I want minimal system I must really stick with Xorg and it's programs and in some rare exceptions I can download a few valuable programs. Even Xorg itself calls a few programs which I don't need (in my case I installed sakura for terminal emulation but still Xorg thinks that I will be better with Xterm - let's do it Boss! ) In the end the bare minimum which you can get with every day programs is LXDE.

[Pjotr]

You should realize that the file managers you mentioned, are the core of their respective desktop environments.....

Only a stand-alone file manager like gnome-commander, can be installed without a truckload of dependencies from another DE.

[RacerBG]

You should realize that the file managers you mentioned, are the core of their respective desktop environments.....

Only a stand-alone file manager like gnome-commander, can be installed without a truckload of dependencies from another DE.

Can you recommend me a few stand-alones like gnome-commander? I would be glad to start my VM again and push the pure minimalism to the max!

Thanks in advance.

[Pjotr]

I like gnome-commander best of all:

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sudo apt-get install gnome-commander

If it won't pull too much extra load, you can expand the features of gnome-commander a bit with this package:

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sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-extra

[RacerBG]

I like gnome-commander best of all:

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sudo apt-get install gnome-commander

If it won't pull too much extra load, you can expand the features of gnome-commander a bit with this package:

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sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-extra

I just had a quick look at https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gnome-commander and looks like it's pretty small indeed. And also it's backported from stretch. I will do further research but if I fail - I will try gnome-commander. Thank you for that one, Pjotr!