This page handles the way Krusader works with archives. In the General section you will see a list of archive formats. Some are checked and some are grayed-out. The ones that are available (not grayed-out) are supported by Krusader. If you check them, Krusader will handle the archives transparently and let you open them as folders; otherwise, Krusader will attempt to invoke an application which opens archives of that type. If a certain archive is grayed-out, it means that Krusader could not find the appropriate executables in the configured path. The next archives are supported: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, gzip, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip.
If you have installed a certain archive application (let's say arj) and want Krusader to know about it, just click the button. Krusader will search for all supported executables and print a report listing the archive formats that can be handled. If the operation was successful the new archive should be available and checked.
Note
Please install new packagers to your
PATH (i.e.:
/usr/bin or
/usr/local/bin etc.)
The full path of the packagers is stored in the Konfigurator Dependencies page (e.g. to handle ZIP archives, Krusader needs the unzip and zip executables). It is possible that you need to manually configure the mimes to the protocols in the Konfigurator Protocol page.
Fine-Tuning
Test archives after packing: this option automatically runs a test on a newly packed archive. It is safer, but takes longer.