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Krusader has a detailed documentation handbook. The documentation team also provides a weekly build of the handbook in PDF format.
Check out our developer site on Phabricator where all development is taking place (you can log in with a KDE Identity account).
You can fetch the source from the KDE Git repository.
$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/krusader
$ git clone git@git.kde.org:krusader.git
Note: Refer to the GitKdeOrgManual for details.
$ cd krusader
$ mkdir -v build && cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ ..
$ make
# At the beginning of the following command: `sudo` must be added if Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian, or similar is being used.
$ su -c "make install"
Note: For the advanced and latest installation instructions please refer to the INSTALL file in the Krusader sources.
Note: On a multi cpu/core system you might want to speed up the compile process by increasing the number of jobs (e.g. "make -j4").
Due to the layout of KDE's repository, translations aren't part of the checkout. There is a list of translation files in the 10n.kde.org Krusader page. In that list anyone can look for his desired translation file, hover the mouse cursor over its link, see its tooltip to look up the appropriate language code (which is shown between parentheses, e.g. if on the tooltip it's seen "German (de)" that means that the language code is: de), click on the link (in order to download the proper krusader.po file), and execute:
$ msgfmt krusader.po -o krusader.mo
# At the beginning of the following command: `sudo` must be added if Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian, or similar is being used.
# Replace <XX> with the previously found language code (e.g. de for German).
$ su -c "cp krusader.mo /usr/share/locale/<XX>/LC_MESSAGES/"
In order to build a snapshot which includes translations KDE's releaseme script can be used. Here is how it works:
$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/releaseme
$ releaseme/tarme.rb --version git`date +%Y%m%d` --origin trunk krusader
Note: You need to have ruby installed to run the script.
The script will create a tarball in the same directory which can be installed as usual:
$ tar xjvf krusader-git`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.bz2
$ cd krusader-git`date +%Y%m%d`
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/
$ make
$ su -c "make install"The commitfilter can be used to define Krusader related filters to receive commit messages.
Looking for a quick source download? Krusader comes in different flavors:
The latest stable version of Krusader.
Mature, and safe for everyday use. Made for KDE5 / KFramework 5
This version is a (possibly) unstable and older build of Krusader. Usable with KDE Plasma 4.
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Supplied for older systems.
This version is a (possibly) unstable but may include new features
and bug fixes that haven't been released yet.
Chances are good, that Krusader is already part of your distribution and can be installed without major effort. In a perfect world Krusader is only one command away ...
# apt-get install krusader
Note:This is supposed to work on any Debian based system like Ubuntu or Mepis as well as other apt-get aware distributions such as ALT Linux.
Related links: Packages.debian.org, Packages.ubuntu.com
# emerge krusader
Note:Refer to the official Gentoo Handbook if you intend to try the testing branch.
Related links: Packages.gentoo.org
# dnf install krusader
Related links: Fedora package database
# urpmi krusader
Related links: Mageia wiki
More systems known to include Krusader:
Arch Linux,
ArcheOS,
Ark Linux,
FreeBSD,
Frugalware Linux,
Kanotix,
Lunar Linux,
ROCK Linux,
OpenLX,
openSUSE,
Knoppix,
Linspire,
PCLinuxOS,
ALT Linux,
Source Mage
Krusader can be extended with custom add-ons called User Actions. You can find existing extensions and share your own ones in the KDE store. Note that all add-ons there are unofficial, use them with caution.
An obviously incomplete list of Krusader releases.
See the full changelog here: ChangeLog
+Release date: 2018-May-13 - KDE5 - Release notes | Changelog
+ +SHA256 checksum: TBD
Release date: 2017-Apr-12 - KDE5
SHA256 checksum: 7061a43cada6bd7df991ed2e3e5193b1d99144fa426c8331a2b54170b79b3a39
Release date: 2016-Oct-22 - KDE5 - Changelog
SHA256 checksum: fb9f4b237378fd5d86d5c0202b9d714f3d8dfe549ba9e7926f6f9de60b5088d7
Release date: 2012-Oct-21 - KDE4 - Release notes | Changelog
Release date: 2012-Oct-12 - KDE4 - Release notes | Changelog
Release date: 2011-Jun-26 - KDE4 - Release notes | Changelog
Release date: 2010-Dec-16 - KDE4
Release date: 2010-Apr-30 - KDE4
Release date: 2009-Oct-31 - KDE4
Release date: 2009-Apr-11 - KDE4 - Release notes | Changelog
Release date: 2008-Mar-15 - KDE3 - Release notes | Changelog
Visit SourceForge for a full archive of Krusader packages including builds for various systems.
Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE Plasma and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want. Plus:
It supports a wide variety of archive formats and can handle other KIO slaves such as smb or fish. It is (almost) completely customizable, very user friendly, fast and looks great on your desktop! You should give it a try.
This piece of software is developed by the Krusader Krew, published under the GNU General Public Licence.
We use the KDE Bugtracker. Refer to the FAQ for how to provide useful information in your bug report.
Note: Before you file a new bug, please make sure that the bug hasn't already been reported.
Support for these protocols is not inbuilt in Krusader but provided by KIO. You need to additionally install the corresponding protocol library. The package is most likely called kio-extras.
Krusader uses icons which are only contained in KDE's default icon set Breeze. Make sure you have it installed and that it is used by KDE applications. Unfortunately you cannot use a different icon set because it will most likely not contain all icons needed in contrast to the very large set in Breeze.
