The original sources do not build well on Linux. Here are the patches you need. naut17bs.zip The Original Sources nautilus-1.7b.makefile.patch o Wrong include path for target linux -I$(RSAREF)/source (must be -I($RSAREF) ) o I had to go into the directory rsaref (and spc10) and start compiling by hand. I do not know why. It seems that some of the environment inside make is different, so that a real shell escape is needed. (There is surely a make switch for it ??) o error for the install target. a ../ must be deleted. nautilus-1.7b.cli.patch made cli.c to look after a .nautilus.cfg file in users home directory if Env. Var. NAUTILUS_CONFIG_FILE is unset. nautilus-1.7b.ntp_udp.patch There was a inconsistent definition of sys_error... (on a glibc system)