Nemo in 16.04

Install Nemo with Unity patches and without Cinnamon dependencies in Ubuntu 16.10 or 16.04

Important: do not use this PPA if you use Linux Mint or if you use the Cinnamon desktop in Ubuntu! Also, if you've added any Cinnamon PPAs, you'll have to purge them before using this Nemo PPA.

To add the Nemo 3 PPA (new PPA; the old WebUpd8 Nemo PPA still has Nemo 2.8.x!) and install Nemo with Unity patches and without Cinnamon dependencies, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/nemo3

sudo apt update

sudo apt install nemo

To install Nemo extensions, you can either search for "nemo" in Synaptic, or install them via command line - you can find the available extensions HERE.

Optional: set Nemo as the default file manager

To set Nemo as the default file manager (including setting Nemo to manage the desktop), use the following commands:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

(the first command above disables Nautilus from handling the desktop, and the second command sets Nemo as the default app to open directories)

Then restart the session (logout/login) and you're done!

How to revert the changes

To revert the changes, use Nautilus to draw the desktop instead of Nemo:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true

And set Nautilus back as the default file manager:

xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search

To remove the PPA and all the Nemo packages (including the Nemo extensions), use:

sudo apt remove nemo nemo-*

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-nemo-*.list