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Expand Up @@ -16,6 +16,28 @@ reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012.

Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after Jules Verne's famous character Captain Nemo, who is the captain of the Nautilus.

Build Instructions
====
## 1.Install needed dependencies:
```
sudo apt install git meson ninja-build pkg-config build-essential \
libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libxml2-utils libgnome-desktop-3-dev \
libcinnamon-desktop-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libnotify-dev \
libexif-dev libexempi-dev libgirepository1.0-dev libgsf-1-dev libgail-common \
libxapp-dev libgail-common libjson-glib-dev gobject-introspection
```
## 2. Clone repo:

``` git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo ```

## 3. Build:
```
mkdir build
meson setup ./build
meson compile -C ./build
```
Run with ``` ./build/src/nemo ```

Features
====
Nemo v1.0.0 had the following features as described by the developers:
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