or Konqueror are traditional alternatives when browse your file system , there are a number of alternatives in the segment of the file explorer, and Double Commander is a of the most interesting.

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revealed in this file browser is inspired by the almost legendary Total Commander, and in fact supports its plugins. As this development application uses a two-panel interface (source, destination) that allows us to monitor file operations quickly.

Features include support tabs tool for renaming multiple files , embedded terminal, internal text editor, file previewer, file explorer (ZIP, TGZ, RPM, RAR , DEB), and extended searches.

Double Commander 0.5

has recently come with some major improvements, such as FTP support (currently only connects to the server, and little else), support for network exploration or improvements files When previewing images.

If you want to install

Double Commander in Ubuntu you can do in very few steps. First, add the appropriate PPA repository:

sudo apt

 add-ppa-repository: alexx2000/doublecmdsudo apt-get update 

the second set or the GTK version browser …

 sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk 

… or Qt version

 sudo apt-get install doublecmd-qt 

indicated in the original article, if you are users of other distributions you will find the right one for each case in the official download page of Double Commander.