nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus extension that adds a menu entry on symbolic links to directories which open the pointed directory (the real path).
It does so both when right clicking on a the folder icon or on the contents of an opened symbolic link.
This packages were built for Debian Sid (Unstable) on May 12th 2007. If you are using a stable version of Debian there's a big chance they won't install. See the Debian build instructions.
To build in other versions of Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, first install the build dependancies...
# apt-get install debhelper gcc libtool pkg-config libc6-dev libglib2.0-dev libnautilus-extension-dev intltool gettext automake1.9 autoconf
Get the source and, e.g. use:
$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc
There's a handy script in the source (dist) that should create the necessary files to build.
Build summary: (as is common, '$' denotes a command as a normal user and '#' as root)
$ tar zxvf nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2.tar.gz
$ cd nautilus-follow-symlink-1.0.2
$ ./dist
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
None so far for the current version.
GNOME 2.22 changed some APIs/ABIs that affect this extension. I can't currently test extensively but this version appears to work correctly in newer versions of GNOME and nautilus, I'll update it ASAP.
Version 1.0.99-pre.1, pre-release with support for GNOME 2.22.
Provided DEBs are for Debian Sid+Experimental (i386 & amd64) and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron, i386 & amd64).
For any other distros/arches you'll have to build from the source.
Ubuntu amd64 package contributed by koro.
If you have a contribution (new ideas, fixes, translations...) to make, please contact me.