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How to use a more recent version of nautilus on Ubuntu 20.04

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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?

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cn flag
So, Ubuntu 20.04 has a Gnome 3 desktop. But your desired Nautilus version (40.1) looks like that it may depend on Gnome 4? That would be a big endeavor to upgrade to Gnome 4, wouldn't it? (I don't know.) (Here you can see gnome-shell having a Gnome-4 (precisely, gnome-40) branch: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/tree/gnome-40/)
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cn flag
This is a thread about when gnome-40 may show up in Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/q/1342446/1157519
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zw flag
For focal there is [only one PPA](https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nautilus-typeahead?field.series_filter=focal) with Nautilus, and it ships 3.36. Also you can't get v40 on focal because of API changes and deep dependencies.
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