Double Commander (Dual Panel File Manager) for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

Install Double Commander (Dual Panel File Manager) in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 15/14/13/12/11/10/9/other Ubuntu derivatives

Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas. Double commander offers most of the operations within it's ground like terminal, network operations, text editor, archive packing support, search function, Tabs, and many more. There is another famous twin-panel file manager available called Sunflower.

Features of Double Commander:

• Internal text editor (F4)  with syntax highlighting
• Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format
• Archives are handled like sub-directories. 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
• Unicode support
• All operations working in background
• Multi-rename tool
• Tabbed interface
• Custom columns
• And more...

To install Double-Commander in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexx2000/doublecmd
sudo apt-get update

Install Double-Commander GTK version via this command:

Terminal Command:
sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk

Install Double-Commander Qt version via this command:

Terminal Command:
sudo apt-get install doublecmd-qt

That's it

Source: Doublecmd