Slackware 13.1: Konqueror/Dolphin and sftp:// not working
 

I can't make sftp:// work with Konqueror/Dolphin in Slackware 13.1. All I get is a warning telling me that sftp isn't supported.

This is on a full install of Slackware 13.1.

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'd rather not use fish://.

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Searching this forum for 'sftp' leads to this thread among others:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-809486/

I found this also:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-4-4-a-788896/

So it seems it was a conscious decision by the Slackware developers to remove sftp:// support, and the decision was based on a comment, on a libvirt maillist, that was retracted a week later??

Is there any hope of getting this, to me at least, vital functionality back? And if not, what packages must I recompile on order to add sftp:// support to Slackware 13.1?

Install libssh and redo the kde.slackbuild? It doesn't take very long, and it will even work with kde 4.4.4 so you get the latest bug fix release in the process. If you do go that route, there is a patch for kde-network in 4.4.3 and it's slackbuild needs the line relating to patching commented out if you are building 4.4.4. :)

I am also looking for this functionality, sftp://. What are the alternatives, fish://? I think that is an even worse protocol/interface.

There's also sshfs in slackbuilds. I suppose it does the same. Or what?

You won't gain anything in konqueror or dolphin with sshfs. Installing libssh and rebuilding kde works. I don't know the individual package that would do it.

***EDIT***
A little googling and I *THINK* it's the kdebase-runtime package that needs rebuilding after libssh is installed. The kde slackbuilds are available in the source directory of Slackware.

I was about to ask the same question.
Konqueror with embedded sftp:// is an essential feature which i took for granted. Let's hope that Slackware team will put it back. Meanwhile i will stick with my Slackware 12.2 or try another distribution. Recompiling kde and libssh may work but maybe it is not that easy.

I tried it in these days and sftp doesn't work well neither in kde 4.5.86: in dolphin you can't delete files, neither through fish or sftp, but in konqueror it works.
I can understand why it's not in by default.

FWIW, the sftp kioslave is available from SlackBuilds.org: http://slackbuilds.org/apps/sftp-kio_slave/

It worked for me.
Installed libssh and sftp-kio_slave from slackbuilds.org.
Now i can use konqueror or dolphin as sftp client.
Thanks

It worked for me fine :), THX