How To Install Midnight Commander on Popos

To Install Midnight Commander on Popos

Midnight Commander is a free cross-platform file manager that is developed as a console application with a text user interface. It includes the ability to view the contents of the RPM package files and to function as an FTP and FISH client. It also supports an editor called mcedit, which can be executed as a standalone program or from Midnight commander.

Installation

Add the repository which contains Mid-night commander package.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa

 This repository contains collection of customized, updated, ported and backported
packages for two last LTS releases and latest pre-LTS release.

Packages for older releases relocated to ppa:eugenesan/archive or deleted.

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| Disclaimer:
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* Packages in this a nd related PPAs are for personal use only.
  They developed specifically for several custom environments and may not work for you.
* Usage of packages in this PPA, in some forms, might contradict licenses of software
  packaged in this and related PPAs. End users and administrator are responsible for
  runtime licensing and possible legal consequences.
* Some packages provided with their dependencies while some might require additional
  Ubuntu repositories and external PPAs. Below is the list of

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| To add this repository, to your Ubuntu installation, invoke:
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
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gpg: /tmp/tmpo1k5_0h4/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E61380B28313A596: public key " Launchpad synergy+"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

Update the system repository using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu artful InRelease [15.3 kB]
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease                    
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease [83.2 kB]   
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76/pop/ubuntu artful InRelease           
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages [488 B]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]  
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages [488 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/eugenesan/ppa/ubuntu artful/main Translation-en [224 B]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 263 kB in 2s (119 kB/s)    
Reading package lists... Done

Install Midnight commander as follows

root@linuxhelp:~#  apt-get install mc -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

  libssh2-1 mc-data
Suggested packages:
  arj catdvi | texlive-binaries dbview djvulibre-bin genisoimage gv
  imagemagick libaspell-dev links | w3m | lynx odt2txt python-boto python-tz

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libssh2-1 mc mc-data
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 167 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,785 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,541 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 libssh2-1 amd64 1.8.0-1 [73.2 kB]
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Setting up mc (3:4.8.19-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...

After the installation, you can access both the application from the menu as follows.

Following Image shows MC editor

Following Image shows the midnight commander File manager

with this, the method to install Mid-night Commander on Popos comes to an end.