Re: mc Digest, Vol 107, Issue 3

[Theodore Kilgore <kilgota banach math auburn edu>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, chris glur wrote:

> Can someone confirm that mc is available for ARM:rPi ?
> I've often wondered why Debian doesn't acknowledge that
> gpm is the most essential utility and mc is the 2nd most.

Hi, Chris,

ArmedSlack (Slackware for ARM, aka Slackarm) does contain a package for 
mc. I can also confirm that, as of a couple of months ago, 
slackarm-current is running well enough on the RPi. 

In Debian, you might possibly be able to get mc by the routine of running 
sudo apt-get install mc. In fact, I think that I vaguely recall doing that 
successfully during my first attempt to get the RPi up and running, back 
when I first got one of them. As to why Debian seems to bypass mc as part 
of the basic distribution and seems to want to make people go and get it 
instead, I have no idea. I have often wondered about that obvious 
omission, myself.

Theodore Kilgore