How to install Krusader on Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. Krusader is a twin panel file manager for Linux Ubuntu Desktop. Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want.
Krusader file manager has various powerful features, such as mounted filesystem support, file transfers with (S)FTP and an internal viewer and editor.
Other features are:
- Archive Handling: browsing, unpack, pack, testing. Supported archives: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip.
- Checksum Creation and Verification mechanism that supports md5, sha1, sha256, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, tiger, whirlpool, cfv, and crc.
- Calculate occupied space of files and folders, archives and remote filesystems.
- Directory comparison and filtering.
- Compare files by content via external diff programs like Kompare, KDiff3 or xxdiff.
- Rename files and folders via KRename
- Completely supports drag’n’drop: drag from Konqueror straight into a
.tar.gzfile, from Krusader’s panel into the trash bin, the desktop or into Konqueror - Preserve date for local targets at copy/move operations.
- F2 opens a Terminal Window in the current directory.
- Easy editing of file permissions and ownership and Numeric Permissions.
- Selection filters used in e.g. Synchronizer (disabled at the compilation time by default) and KruSearcher.
- Jump-Back
- MIME type-aware.
- Tabbed panels and Tabbed Editor/Viewer.
- Quick search
- File splitter
- Mouse Gestures
- Quick Navigation in the Location Toolbar.
- WhatsThis Help function in favour of tooltips where reasonable.
- Sync-browsing
- An internal viewer and editor
- Directory synchronisation
- File content comparisons
- Powerful batch renaming
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.
Install Krusader on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in terminal to install Krusader on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Linux Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krusader
Once installed, open the Krusader file manager from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.