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[Im_Goodspeed]

Midnight Commander is a very useful file manager.

To run midnight commander 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/uti...c-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 to get it work with mouse.

Enjoy!

[lvalics]

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

[WARP3]

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.

[yourmail]

how can be installed with yum ??

[lvalics]

yum install mc

[yourmail]

it says package mc not found !!!

[lvalics]

[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.

[yourmail]

where do i set this ???

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

[Im_Goodspeed]

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/rpm2htm...&system=&arch=

[yourmail]

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/3r...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/3r...rs/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!