Installing Midnight Commander -

• First we have to install some prerequisites

1) pkgconfig is needed to compile glib, a library mc relies on. Download the latest version from its official site. Currently, it’s pkgconfig-0.15.0.tar.gz. Then unpack, compile & install:

• wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-0.15.0.tar.gz


• tar zxvf pkgconfig0.15.0.tar.gz


• cd pkgconfig-0.15.0


• ./configure


• make


• make install

2) You’ll also need GNU gettext, which can be found in this folder: gettext-0.13.tar.gz. The same tired routine:

• wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.13.tar.gz


• tar xvzf ~/Desktop/gettext0.13.tar.gz


• cd gettext-0.13/


• ./configure


• make


• sudo make install

3) Install glib
With Panther, the only additional library you have to install for mc is reduced to glib. Opening the GTK+ home page, click on the topmost Source link and download the latest .bz2-compressed version of glib from the FTP directory which appears. At the time of writing, this file is called glib-2.2.3.tar.bz2. Compiling and installing it couldn’t be any simpler:

• wget ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.3.tar.bz2


• bunzip2 glib-2.2.3.tar.bz2


• tar xvf glib2.2.3.tar


• cd glib-2.2.3


• ./configure


• make


• make install

4) Install mc
Time to obtain a copy of mc, at the time of this writing, it was up to version 4.6.1-pre1. Compiling is again quite simple, with the one notable exception of the ncurses switch for ./configure, which makes it all work properly with Panther. You might want to experiment with the mc Autoconf script’s other switches for enabling/disabling features; the list of available switches can be read by invoking ./configure—help | less as usual.

• wget http://easynet.linux.tucows.com/files/mc-4.6.1-pre1.tar.gz


• tar zxvf mc4.6.1-pre1.tar.gz


• cd mc-4.6.1-pre1/


• ./configure—without-x—with-screen=ncurses


• make


• make install

Now we have successfully installed Midnight Commander from source now just try “mc” command on shell…....
That’s all,

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Shane Bewick