Hey again gang,

I love Krusader. I've been touting it for as long as I've been using Slackware, I believe, so probably for quite a few years.

Now though, with my installation of 15.0, krusader absolutely refuses to use certain parts of the service menu (the right-click on something and it gives me options to use stuff).

For instance, in 14.2 and older I used to be able to right-click on, let's say, an tar.gz file from SlackBuilds.org, so I could build a package to install or upgrade. Now, with the 15.0 krusader, nothing to do with packing or unpacking is working on such things. *Nothing*. The particular menu items I refer to are the 'extract' items. I had to do a find thing in system settings for an 'extract here' that nested into the right-click menu as a different 'extract here' from the other one that has to be found in the second column: extract->extract here

All the necessary lib's are installed to pack or unpack. I can even click in the service menu 'extract to->' which brings up

It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, and sometimes isn't even in the menu! (the new installed one that sits at the bottom of the 'extract' section in the right-click menu).

I figured I'd give the latest dev build of Krusader a try, but I can't find a source build for krusader on the https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...ckware64-15.0/ site for it.

I can't find it on Ponce's git site either. I don't think the 'build' for it for 14.2 will work correctly and don't want to try, since it's now integral to KDE somehow, I think.

Does anyone have any ideas how/where/what I can do to either fix what I have or upgrade to the latest version of it?

I feel your pain. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to play with it to figure out wnat's going on. I just switch to Thunar with the archive plugin, or open as -> xarchiver. Weird thing is, you can open (or double click) view etc the tar.gz contents. Therefore, it's "working". From a cursory interweb search, this may be some weird bug in Ark and not Krusader?

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well, heck. just found this. https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/krusa.../archives.html
Seems to be that to "extact-to" you open destination in one panel, then in the other panel, select the archive, then File -> Unpack. The default location will be the other open panel.

Weird, no mention of context menu right-click extract.

see also: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1252...an-ark#1257444

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Bleh...that seems so counter-intuitive as to be some kind of leftover garbage from Win98!!

Like you, I just open dolphin and it works fine there, unfortunately, since I can't stand dolphin. <sigh>

That's the way I've always done it with Orthodox File Managers. Going back to Total Commander in the 00s.

Open destination directory in one panel. Tab to the other panel, select archive and unpack to destination. I always assumed that was the fastest way to do it, even if you were unpacking to the same directory. I don't remember using a right-click or left-click menu in an OFM for anything.

OP : Worker is a nice substitute for Krusader. I mention it because Krusader development seems to be slow or non-existent.

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I kinda like Thunar, over dolphin. With the thunar-archive-plugin and xarchiver, I can set up the context menu to extract and compress with a click to my wee heart's content.