Krusader is not allowing SFTP and fish in Rocky 9

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Hello,

is there a way to get Krusader the ability to use SFTP and fish in the Network Connection feature under Rocky 9?
Typically this functionality relies on the kio-extras package (Arch Linux, Ubuntu,…). I do not see this package in Rocky or EPEL repos. While Krusader remain the best dual panel file manger, the lack of the network part is a serious drawback. Obviously it does work well on other flavors of Linux, so I guess Rock should follow…

Cheers,
Piotr

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Krusader is in EPEL repository, so you would have to make a request with EPEL if they can add such functionality. Krusader is not managed and maintained by RHEL or Rocky because KDE is not offered by default in the RHEL/Rocky repositories.

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Ooops,

For anyone struggling with this issue:
It is actually there. I have just expected it to be kf5-kio-extras while it is just kio-extras.

dnf install kio*

resolves this issue and some more…

Cheers

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dnf group info "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
Shows that that environment group requires group “KDE” as mandatory.
dnf group info "KDE"
Shows that plasma-desktop is a mandatory package for that group and
dnf rq --requires --resolve plasma-desktop
Shows that plasma-desktop requires kio-extras

I did start my search reverse though:
dnf rq --groupmember kio-extras
tells that package is not explicitly in any group, but

dnf rq --whatrequires kio-extras
kio-extras-devel-0:23.08.5-1.el9.x86_64
plasma-desktop-0:5.27.11-1.el9.x86_64

of which the plasma-desktop looks a more promising user.

Have you cherry-picked some packages from KDE, rather than used the convenient (but perhaps too much “unnecessary packages”) ‘dnf group install’?

I have shifted to taking the package lists from ‘dnf group info’, pruning out packages that I don’t want, and feeding pruned lists to Ansible (or dnf directly).

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Indeed. I generally use GNOME but Krusader is the only file manager that resemblance anything useful. Therefore I have installed only Krusader with dependencies.

P.S. My dream is to have an TRUE, CONFIGURABLE, EXTENDABLE and PERFORMANT equivalent of Total Commander on Linux. No, Double Commander is not even close and I am not even writing about its copy/move operations that take about 10 times longer than cp or mv.

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