Archives

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.

Figure 10.6. Archives configuration

If you have installed a certain archive application (let's say arj) and want Krusader to know about it, just click the Auto Configure 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

Allow moving into archives: this option allows you to move files into an archive (as opposed to just copying into the archive). The down side is that if a power failure occurs during the process, the files that were moved might already be deleted, but not yet packed into the archive.
Note
If such a thing happens, the file(s) are NOT LOST. They were actually moved into a subfolder in Krusader's temp directory. You can search the directory and recover your files.
Test archives when finished packing: this option automatically runs a test on a newly packed archive. It is safer, but takes longer.