Midnight Commander is a very useful file manager.

To run midnight commander (http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/) you need glib 1.x.x. or newer.

1. Install glib
# wget ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/glib-2.5.6.tar.gz
# tar zxvf glib-2.5.6.tar.gz
# cd glib-2.5.6
# ./configure --prefix=/usr
# make
# make install

NOTE. If you're installing Glib 2.x.x configure it with /usr directory.

2. Install Midnight Commander
# wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.0.tar.gz
# tar zxvf mc-4.6.0.tar.gz
# cd mc-4.6.0
# ./configure
# make
# make install

To run Midnight commander use

#mc

Also, you may add mouse support. Install gpm daemon (http://linux.schottelius.org/gpm/) to get it work with mouse.

Enjoy!

A faster way can be to intall it with YUM, will resolve depenencies as well.

Yum is not available on all platforms. Installing from source is 99% available.


On a sidenote.. anyone knows a secure alternative to mc ?
For some customers, i want to make available something like mc, but one that can be chroot'ed to their homedir.

how can be installed with yum ??

yum install mc

it says package mc not found !!!

[base]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - Base OS RPMS mirror
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3rd-party/base/$releasever/

[updates]
name=Atomic Rocket Turtle - $releasever - OS Update RPMS mirror
baseurl=http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3rd-party/updates/$releasever/

I use for base this, now see what is your base and updates.Need to be there.

where do i set this ???

what is the most complete mirror for yum and centos ???

Originally posted by WARP3
On a sidenote.. anyone knows a secure alternative to mc ?
For some customers, i want to make available something like mc, but one that can be chroot'ed to their homedir.
Unfortunately, I don't know the way to do it...

Originally posted by yourmail
where do i set this ???

what is the most complete mirror for yum and centos ???

Set it in /etc/yum.conf

Just try to set it up from rpm:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=mc&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=

root@server [~]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons
Server: Atomic Rocket Turtle - 3.3 - Base OS RPMS mirror
retrygrab() failed for:
http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3rd-party/base/3.3/headers/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3rd-party/base/3.3/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
root@server [~]#




what should i do now ???
why this update server doesnt work ???

which is the best and most complete server to use ???

thanx!