HOWTO: Install Midnight Commander

[Hvu]

How to install Midnight commander.

Being a text mode application, GNU Midnight Commander can be used locally or remotely, on the console or under X Window System. By using full screen space of the terminals, it provides an intuitive user interface to the operating system, aiming to be a useful tool for users with any level of experience, from a newbie to a guru.


Once again this guide has SSH commands in blue

Make sure your in su'd

1. Download it
wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

2. Extact
tar zvfx mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

3. CD
cd mc-4.6.1

4. Config
./configure -silent

If that failed, use
./configure

5. Make and Install
make
then
make install

6. Test
mc

Cool screen should popup :]

[Izzy]

Thanks for the howto post.

This link to an alternative, perhaps less bloated and buggy, version of MC.
http://mc.linuxinside.com/cgi-bin/dir.cgi

[Hvu]

Same instructions, just downloaded the other version ;]

[elix]

wow, surprised i never heard of this - pretty slick..though I find a lot quicker just to use shell.

[jpetrov]

In the old old days of MS-DOS, there was this little program called the Norton Commander ('nc'). It helped a lot... The XT was a lot more useable then with the "clean prompt"...

mc is nc's little linux buddy.

[Zaf]

Been using MC for about a couple of months now and was a die hard lover of NC in good old days until Windoze dozed it somehow.....really a great utility

[Robert]

If ya wanna really easy way of installing MC.... use yum. :)

yum install mc

root@server03 [/]# yum install mc
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: mc 1:4.6.0-17.fc2.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages
Getting mc-4.6.0-17.fc2.i386.rpm
mc-4.6.0-17.fc2.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 1.5 MB 00:00
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
mc 100 % done 1/1
Installed: mc 1:4.6.0-17.fc2.i386
Transaction(s) Complete

/me takes a cookie and runs

[Hvu]

YUM, there no fun in that!

OMG rob is alive!

[elix]

YUM, there no fun in that!

OMG rob is alive!
i agree, I tend to like compiling from source :)

[Robert]

I said easy... not fun. lol!