[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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