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I'd like to get Nautilus 3.4 on a fresh install of Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04. Nautilus 3.10 is the earliest version available through the default repositories.

There are instructions around for earlier versions of Ubuntu but they don't directly work for 14.04 and I don't know enough about apt-get to tell why or adapt them.

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Why do you want the older version of Nautilus? – Charles Green Jul 19 '14 at 3:00
    
@CharlesGreen Because they have removed features that I want. – bames53 Jan 24 '15 at 3:33
    
I think many of the deprecated features were rolled into Nemo, which I was using before I switched to gnome. There's a good article about installation and integration of nemo on webupd8 – Charles Green Jan 25 '15 at 15:20
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If you want to install older version of packages on Ubuntu ,theortically possible this but not pratically.

$apt-get install -f <old vesrion>

But your system will have broken packages. Thus you should rebuild the packages in this case.

The process is as following:

1) Get the repository from the Nautilus 3.4 version (you can get it from launchpad).

2) Rebuild this on 14.04. In the sources directory.

$dpkg-source -x nautilus-3.4xxx.dsc
$cd nautilus-3.4xxx
$debian/rules build
$dpkg-build package

3) After then you can install nautilus rebuilt from the local directory.

$dpkg -i nautilus-3.4xxx.deb
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Not going to work. – doug Jul 19 '14 at 5:07
    
Why do you install old version? – prepangolin Jul 19 '14 at 5:16

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