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mc - File manager and user shell ChangeLog

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http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/

HOWTO

# GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1 (aka. 'mc')
# ============================
# Slackware 10.0 and 10.1's 'mc' packages include version 4.6.0

# Prerequisites (for both versions):
# gawk
# grep
# pkg-config
# glib (1.2.x or 2.0.x)
# gettext
# iconv
# bison
# zip, unzip
# perl
# gpm (optional)
# groff
# s-lang or ncurses (optional)
# catdoc (optional - to view Word files with F3)

cd
test -f installed/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz && mv installed/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz .
test ! -f mc-4.6.1.tar.gz &&
wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "18b20db6e40480a53bac2870c56fc3c4 mc-4.6.1.tar.gz" | md5sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "mc-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz
cd mc-4.6.1
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--disable-nls \
--enable-charset \
--with-x=no
make
su -c "removepkg mc ; make install-strip"
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/mc-*.tar.*
mv mc-4.6.1.tar.gz installed/

# If you ever decide to uninstall mc, cd into the source directory and run
# 'make uninstall'. If you can't, or just want to make sure that everything
# is gone, try something like this:
( cd /usr/bin ; rm -f mc mcedit mcmfmt mcview )
test -d /usr/lib/mc && rm -r /usr/lib/mc
( cd /usr/man/man1 ; rm -f mc.1 mcedit.1 mcview.1 )
test -d /usr/share/mc && rm -r /usr/share/mc
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "mc-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/mc-*.tar.*