How To Install krusader on Debian 10

Learn how to install krusader on Debian 10 with this tutorial. krusader is twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install krusader on Debian 10.

What is krusader

krusader is:

Krusader is a simple, easy, powerful, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager, similar to Midnight Commander (C) or Total Commander (C).

It provides all the file management features you could possibly want.

Plus: extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP, advanced search module, viewer/editor, directory synchronisation, file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming and much more.

It supports archive formats: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar, zip and 7-zip.

It handles KIOSlaves such as smb:// or fish://.

Almost completely customizable, Krusader is very user friendly, fast and looks great on your desktop.

There are three methods to install krusader on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install krusader Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install krusader using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install krusader

Install krusader Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install krusader using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install krusader

Install krusader Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install krusader using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install krusader

How To Uninstall krusader on Debian 10

To uninstall only the krusader package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove krusader

Uninstall krusader And Its Dependencies

To uninstall krusader and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove krusader

Remove krusader Configurations and Data

To remove krusader configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge krusader

Remove krusader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove krusader configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge krusader

Dependencies

krusader have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install krusader package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.