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A bug has been introduced in Nautilus 4 years ago, where opening a multi-selection of files with an app launches N instances of the app, instead of opening the N files in a single instance (previous/desired behaviour).

It was finally fixed 2 months ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/commit/080f83385ff79a8be54ee31e7a45422138226f1f, a bit before version 40rc.

How do I install the more recent nautilus (say 40.1) on Ubuntu 20.04? I currently have nautilus 3.36.3

I've googled around, and people mention adding the gnome3 ppa, but it doesn't have any binaries for focal.

Is my only resort to build it from source?

matthieu
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Using a PPA (Personal Package Archive) PPAs are third-party repositories that can provide newer versions of software than those available in the official Ubuntu repositories.

Add the PPA: Open a terminal and run the following command to add a PPA that provides a newer version of Nautilus. Note that this PPA may not always be available or up-to-date, so you might need to search for a suitable one: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 Update the package list: sudo apt update Upgrade Nautilus: sudo apt install nautilus

mathewgomas
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