Installing Midnight Commander on Mac OSX
Midnight Commander (mc) is one of the tools which I always like to see on *nix systems I use. I just can’t understand why Orthodox file managers like good old Norton Commander on DOS or more up to date excellent Total Commander on Windows are not more popular, but nevertheless I am not here to convince anyone to use them, just want to mention that even if you are a deep command line devotee you could find the tools useful. And certainly if you are deep mouse devotee you should try.
I will explain quickly how to install mc on mac (Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.6) using Fink. Installation with Fink should be painless and this blog post should not exist but I experienced an issue with the process I wanted to share quick solution:
1. If you don’t have Fink yet install it
2. Run:
sudo apt-get install mc
3. Try to start Midnight Commander:
mc
4. Fink should install all dependencies but if you encounter following error go to step 5, if not you are done:
dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib Referenced from: /sw/bin/mc Reason: image not found
5. Small dirty hack to fix the previous problem:
sudo ln -s /sw/lib/libintl.3.4.3.dylib /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib
I know that there are more clean solutions than this one. Share this with me! What’s your favourite OFM?
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