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®
Fedora™ via # 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®/Freespire®, 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®,CCux Linux®, ROCK Linux®.
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.

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 SVN 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 SVNNEWS 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.

Subversion

Subversion is used for our sourcecode repository. It is also possible to Browse the Subversion Repository.

Currently, there are four 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, stable but it is basically v1.90.0 and there are no planned changes
krusader_kde4: the KDE4 branch that we currently use
trunc: the KDE4 the development version

To check out the latest Krusader 1.x for KDE 3 from SVN:

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

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

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

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

$ svn co http://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.