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.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.
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-12.1.0, libssh2-1.11.0, pcre2-10.44, Ruby-3.3.4, 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.