Re: Can't start mc without x windows

[Jindrich Novy <jnovy redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:06 -0400, Technical Support wrote:
> I just installed the latest midnight commander on Fedora Core 4, using
> the RPM.  All went great
>  
> I am ssh'd into my linux box.  When I run mc from the command line, it
> always tries to start an xwindows session.  Is there a way to force mc
> to run in console mode only?

Yes, add --without-x to the configure parameters in the spec file and
recompile your src.rpm. Then it should work fine.

BTW. the latest devel mc in Fedora Core is compiled with this option
already, so you can download it directly from:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/mc-4.6.1a-0.15.src.rpm
if you don't want to touch the spec file.

Jindrich

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