[GLLUG] Midnight Commander
Charles
charles at bityard.net
Fri Oct 2 13:31:01 EDT 2009
Chick Tower wrote:
> I'm going to be teaching the intro to the Linux command line class in
> three weeks. I'd like to show the attendees Midnight Commander, but I
> don't know if it comes installed by default in Ubuntu, or in any distros
> other than Slackware. Could someone please let me know if it is
> installed by default in your distro of choice? I know it would be easy
> to install in most distros, but I'd like to know if I'll need to have
> them do that in class. Thanks.
>
> Ordinarily, I'd ask you to let me know off the mailing list, but I might
> get twenty messages about it that way. Please reply to the list so
> people know which distros have been reported. Thank you.
Midnight Commander doesn't come pre-installed on Ubuntu and thus
probably not Debian either. I know this because at least once a week I
type "mc" instead of "mv" and Ubuntu's bash scripts always yell at me
with instructions on how to install it.
Charles
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