Midnight Commander ?

ArturasB · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:02 am Post subject: Midnight Commander ?

Hi.

Is the MC available in the Portage tree ?
Or maybe some other console file manager...

Thank you for your help in advance.

Best regards,
Arturas B.

Luminion · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 13 Location: Israel

ArturasB · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:21 am Post subject:

MTZ · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:27 am Post subject:

MC doesn't need any GUI, it's an console app. But MC has an dep. to XFree - so bring some time with you when you start the emerge process. On my 233 MHz Router it took 8:30 hours to compile.

ArturasB · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 8:34 am Post subject:

MTZ · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2002 9:33 am Post subject:

Maybe a '--nodeps' work, but i have no idea if MC compiles well then.

Rutger · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:07 pm Post subject:

X is not a dependancy of the midnight commander. XFree is only compiled if you have X in your USE var. So if you enter the following commands:

export USE="-X"
emerge mc

you will just install the mc, not XFree.

phong · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 2:36 am Post subject:

More precisely, midnight commander has optional support for X, but X has to be installed for it to work (obviously). Having USE="-X" tells it to compile without support for X, hence it's no longer a dependancy.
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