Debian

###Official Packages Official packages for spacefm and udevil are available in Debian's stable, testing and unstable repositories. Use your package manager to install them. For example:

apt-get install spacefm udevil

###Build A Binary Package Easily build your own binary deb package from source using the instructions in the README.

###Ubuntu Mateusz Łukasik's Ubuntu PPA provides stable packages, and his unstable PPA usually provides daily builds of SpaceFM's 'next' branch (rolling release). (Mateusz Łukasik is the official Debian packager for SpaceFM and udevil.) Packages in this PPA also correct Unity issues.

(OLD) From Issue #49:

If you want to have the menus in view from the 'dash' launcher in Unity you need to do the following:

cp /usr/share/applications/spacefm.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/spacefm.desktop

Then edit the Exec= line in that file to:

Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= spacefm

Note some other Unity issues, most with workarounds or they're fixed in the PPA above.

###Lubuntu Mateusz Łukasik's PPA provides Lubuntu SpaceFM packages.

###For Debian Squeeze If you have trouble installing libgtk2.0-dev, you may need (from Crunchbang forum):

sudo apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libgtk2.0-dev

(does this fix only apply when using Crunchbang backports?)