Double Commander is an open source and free file manager with two panels side by side.
Double Commander is inspired by similar file manager Total Commander and comes with more features and utilities.
Table of Contents
Double Commander Feature Highlights
- Two File Explorer window side by side each having its own directory and file browser.
- Unicode support
- Multi-rename tool
- Tabbed interface
- Custom columns
- Internal text editor (F4) with syntax hightlighting
- Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format
- Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, LZMA
- and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR.
- Extended search function with full text search in any files
- Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands
- Total Commander WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support
- File operations logging
This release mostly the bug fixes from the earlier versions. Find the 0.7.1 change log here.
How to Install
Ubuntu, Mint, elementary, Debian
To install Double Commander 0.7.1 in Ubuntu using terminal run below commands in sequence. Enter password when prompted.
Ubuntu 14.04
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Alexx2000/xUbuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/doublecmd-gtk.list" wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Alexx2000/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key sudo apt-key add - < Release.key sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk
Ubuntu 15.04
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Alexx2000/xUbuntu_15.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/doublecmd-gtk.list" wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Alexx2000/xUbuntu_15.04/Release.key sudo apt-key add - < Release.key sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk
Ubuntu 15.10
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Alexx2000/xUbuntu_15.10/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/doublecmd-gtk.list" wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:Alexx2000/xUbuntu_15.10/Release.key sudo apt-key add - < Release.key sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk
How to Use
Type Double Commander in dash. Click the launcher icon. For others, find it in application menu.

Double Commander Feature Highlights
A video guide showing the features of Double Commander.
Links
How to uninstall
To uninstall Double Commander run below commands in terminal.
sudo apt-get remove doublecmd-gtk
Image Credits
Double Commander