MC (Midnight Commander) is a text-mode full-screen file manager and visual shell. It provides a clear, user-friendly, and somewhat protected interface to a Unix system while making many frequent file operations more efficient and preserving the full power of the command prompt.
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Download (HTTP): http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.8.30.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 96fcd04710b7848fedea8597da4bd7da
Download size: 2.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 75 MB (add 86 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 0.2 SBU for tests)
Doxygen-1.10.0, GPM-1.20.7, Graphviz-9.0.0, libssh2-1.11.0, PCRE-8.45, pcre2-10.42, Ruby-3.3.0, UnZip-6.0, a graphical environment, and Zip-3.0
Install MC by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-charset && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
--sysconfdir=/etc
: This switch places the global configuration directory in /etc
.
--enable-charset
: This switch adds support to mcedit for editing files in encodings different from the one implied by the current locale.
--with-search-engine=pcre2
: Use this switch if you would prefer to use pcre2-10.42 instead of GLib for the built-in search engine. Alternatively, you can pass 'pcre' instead of 'pcre2' if you prefer to use PCRE-8.45.
The ~/.config/mc
directory and its contents are created when you start mc for the first time. Then you can edit the main ~/.config/mc/ini
configuration file manually or through the MC shell. Consult the mc(1) man page for details.