For all of you users out there who don't like Dolphin at all and find that the current Konqueror is unusable, here's some instructions to install the current KDE4 branch of Krusader (a two-pane, orthodox file manager) from SVN. (Note: you'll need to have the proper development tools from your distribution or OS.)

(These instructions are adapted from the ones here.)

First, download the sources. Personally, I place all of my downloaded or extracted sources into ~/src.

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% mkdir ~/src; cd ~/src

Next, the sources are downloaded from SVN.

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% svn co http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4

Run these commands to compile the sources:

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% cd krusader_kde4
% cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
   -DCMAKE_DQT_INCLUDES=`kde4-config --qt-libraries`
% make #Use 'gmake' on *BSD

Then, su to root, and install.

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# make install #Use 'gmake install' on *BSD

If you do not have root access on the machine you are installing on, you can install it into your home folder instead (I usually go for ~/local). Simply use this instead for the cmake command above:

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% mkdir ~/local; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`~/local`
   -DCMAKE_DQT_INCLUDES=`kde4-config --qt-libraries`

And then be sure to add ~/local/bin to your $PATH.

To uninstall, cd to ~/src/krusader_kde4 and run:

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# make uninstall #Use 'gmake uninstall' on *BSD

Also, those percent signs are the default prompt in Zsh. All you silly Bash users can just ignore them. :-P But no matter what shell you are using, if you are copy/pasting these commands, don't copy the %'s or #'s with them. It just won't work.

DISCLAIMER: I have not actually tried to install it into my home folder, because I *do* have root access. I believe it should work, but if it doesn't and you have a solution, feel free to correct me.

jrick wrote:For all of you users out there who don't like Dolphin at all and find that the current Konqueror is unusable, here's some instructions to install the current KDE4 branch of Krusader (a two-pane, orthodox file manager) from SVN. (Note: you'll need to have the proper development tools from your distribution or OS.)

...or keep using Krusader from 3.5.10. No probs in KDE4.1.2 till now.

Witwe_Bolte wrote:...or keep using Krusader from 3.5.10. No probs in KDE4.1.2 till now.

Does this mean that you had Krusader 1.9 on your computer, but it no longer works after installing Krusader 2.0-SVN? Where did you install it, and where was Krusader 1.9 installed? (like, if your "kde4-config --prefix" is /usr, and 1.9 is also installed in /usr, you will have problems. Use /usr/local as you prefix instead, or install it in your home directory.)

Ok if i move this to the "Tutorials & Tipps" section?

neverendingo wrote:Ok if i move this to the "Tutorials & Tipps" section?

Sure.

jrick wrote:

Witwe_Bolte wrote:...or keep using Krusader from 3.5.10. No probs in KDE4.1.2 till now.

Does this mean that you had Krusader 1.9 on your computer, but it no longer works after installing Krusader 2.0-SVN?

uh. 'no probs' meant Krusader 1.9 works fine with KDE4.1. That's all.

Seems that Krusader 2 is in the Debian experimental repos:

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# apt-cache policy krusader
krusader:
  Installiert: 2.0.0beta1+svn6078-1
  Kandidat: 2.0.0beta1+svn6078-1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.0.0beta1+svn6078-1 0
        101 http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.90.0-3 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Packages


Greez w.

widux wrote:Seems that Krusader 2 is in the Debian experimental repos:

...

Greez w.

I gave it a try, works nicely.

However now when I got used to Dolphin, I had hard time to use this kind of "browser" So full points for Dolphin now for what it's ment for. However Dolphin is not a "poweruser" -toy of this like this baby

Thanks jrick for pointing out this tool!

yes apt-get does it in Kubuntu-8.10 too