Obtaining Krusader

Krusader Downloads

it is recommended to use the Krusader package that is provided by your distribution. Distrowatch.com is a great resource to check the availability. If your distribution does not offer Krusader, please contact the creators of your distribution and ask them to provide a Krusader package

The latest version, as well as the older versions, can be found on the Krusader downloadpage and on the Sourceforge mirrors. It contains the source tarballs, RPM and DEB packages to whatever distro the Krusader-Krew is using and packages build by Krusader users and third parties.

Distributions who provide Krusader:

SuSE® >= 9.3, Note: please use Krusader-1.60.0 instead of Krusader-1.51 (might be unstable on SuSE®9.3-KDE3.4).
Fedora™ via Fedora™ Extras # yum install krusader will do the job, thanks to Marcin Garski. Red Hat® RPM packages can usually found on the Krusader downloadpage or at dag.wieers.com and Dries Verachtert RPM Repository .
Debian®, on our Krusader downloadpage you might find more recent DEB packages. Note: usually Debian® packages work also on distributions that are "based on Debian®", and some of these provide their own (incompatible) packages. Ubuntu®/Kubuntu®, Linspire®, Knoppix® 4.x DVD, Kanotix®, etc.
Mandriva® via the contrib repository # urpmi krusader will do the job, Gentoo®, Yoper™.
Arch Linux®, Frugalware Linux®, PCLinuxOS®, altlinux®.
FreeBSD®, the port is maintained by Heiner Eichmann.
NetBSD®, Lunar Linux® ,Ark Linux®, OpenLX™, Source Mage®.
Even more distributions can be found with Distrowatch.com.

Use the installation tools included in your distro to install the Krusader package. You might need an internet connection if Krusader is not included on the CD or DVD. There are probably other distributions which include Krusader. If you know of one, please send feedback so that we can include it on the distrolist.

Others

Slackware® tgz binaries can usually be found on the Krusader downloadpage. You can also use Portpkg that contains a Krusader SlackBuild, # portpkg krusader will do the job.
There is a Mac® OS-X port with the help of fink , the port is maintained by Catalin Hritcu.

Installation via the klik protocol

klik://krusader downloads Krusader provided by Debian® stable, more information is available .
klik://krusader-latest downloads the latest stable Krusader provided by the Krusader Krew.
klik://krusader-cvs downloads a cvs snapshot of Krusader provided by the Krusader Krew.

Search engines

You can also find packages on Linux® software archives such as freshmeat.net or KDE-APPS.org .
If you can notfind a package for your distribution, we recommend searching for it with rpmfind, rpmpbone or rpmseek.

If you enjoy using Krusader, we would appreciate it if you went to one of these sites and rated it.

If you still can not find a package, follow the installation procedure on how to compile Krusader from source. This very thorough HowTo describes the process in such detail that even newcomers should not have any problems.

Version Scheme

A new version scheme has been used since Krusader-1.60.0

First digit - the major version
Second digit(s) - percentage of features completed for this major version
Third digit(s) - bugfixes.

In essence, releasing Krusader-1.60.0 means that we believe that Krusader is about 60% done with all the features we had scheduled for the 1.x.x series. Series 2.x.x will be KDE 4.x releases. Hopefully, it is easy to understand.

Stable Version

krusader-x.xx.tar.gz

Note

Krusader is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This means that THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, even when it is marked as a stable release.

Development Version (beta release)

krusader-x.xx-betax.tar.gz

Before every stable release we release at least one development version in order to hunt down the bugs.

Warning

These releases are beta releases and will probably contain some bugs.

Note

If you are using a development or CVS version, it is possible that the latest new features are not yet in the "The Krusader Handbook". Please read the ChangeLog file online or in the Krusader sources to find out more about the new features. For a brief description, please read the CVSNEWS file online or in the Krusader sources. User feedback and Bug reports are always welcome!

The beta release has 3 goals:

Apply a feature-freeze until the stable is released, only bugs will be fixed. New features have to wait until the stable is released.
Obtain feedback from Krusader users so that we can fix the bugs.
Give translators time to update the translations for the coming stable. Please read the i18n page.

CVS Builds

krusader-cvs-yyyymmdd.tar.gz

Warning

These builds are untested and come without any warranty. They may contain bugfixes, new features, or even new bugs.

We provide daily snapshots of Krusader's CVS version. For those who are interested, the nightly tarball can be found on the Krusader's Cutting Edge page. Depending on the stage of development, this version will either be stable or unstable. Just before a stable release, the CVS version is almost stable. After a stable release new features will be committed into CVS, which might lead to the appearance of bugs. In some rare cases, the build will not even compile if we make a mistake. In that case we try to fix the error as soon as possible.

Krusader provides 2 nightly snapshots:

krusader-cvs-yyyymmdd.tar.gz: make -f Makefile.cvs must be run before the ./configure script is available.
krusader-cvs2-yyyymmdd.tar.gz: for users who have problems with the make -f Makefile.cvs command, we have already done this for you and the ./configure script is included in the tarball. This tarball is a bit bigger than the first one.

check out from CVS. Krusader can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. The module you wish to check out must be specified as the module name. When prompted for a password for anonymous, press the Enter key.

Currently, there are two module options:

krusader_kde2: the KDE2 branch, stable but it is basically v1.01 and there are no planned changes
krusader_kde3: the KDE3 branch that we currently use

To check out Krusader from CVS:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@krusader.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/krusader login

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@krusader.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/krusader co krusader_kde3

(note: updates from within the modules directory do not need the -d parameter)

If you want to check out a specific version of Krusader from CVS (e.g. Krusader-1.60.0) :

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@krusader.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/krusader co -rversion_1_60_0 krusader_kde3

If you want to check out a specific date of Krusader from CVS (e.g. Krusader-2006-10-29) :

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@krusader.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/krusader co -D2006-10-29 krusader_kde3

Mostly being Gentoo® users, we provide a Gentoo® Live Ebuild for all those who want to stay on the bleeding edge of file management and do not want to miss the advantages of portage. Please take a look at our Krusader's Cutting Edge page for more installation details.

We also provide ViewCVS to browse the CVS repository.

Subversion

Subversion is used for the Krusader 2.x series for KDE4. it is also possible to Browse the Subversion Repository.

To check out the latest Krusader 1.x for KDE 3 from SVN: (NOTE: at moment of writing use CVS for krusader_kde3, since krusader_kde3 is developed in CVS and NOT in SVN, currently you will get an old version in SVN)

$ svn co https://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde3

To check out the latest Krusader 2.x for KDE 4 from SVN:

$ svn co https://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4

Older Releases

If you are looking for older releases we recommend the Sourceforge mirrors, available from our project page.

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