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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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.midnight-commander.org/mc-4.8.32.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bcc9043a815c02c5837f8b1a4a60da5a
Download size: 2.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 71 MB (add 96 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 0.2 SBU for tests)
Doxygen-1.12.0, GPM-1.20.7, Graphviz-12.1.2, libssh2-1.11.1, pcre2-10.44, Ruby-3.3.5, 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-screen=ncurses: Use
this if you don't have slang-2.3.3 installed.
--with-search-engine=pcre2: Use this
switch if you would prefer to use pcre2-10.44 instead of GLib for the
built-in search engine.
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.