How To Install mc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mc on Rocky Linux 8. mc is User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is mc

Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also includes mouse support. Midnight Commander’s best features are its ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for specific files.

We can use yum or dnf to install mc on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mc.

Install mc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mc

Install mc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mc

How To Uninstall mc on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mc

mc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/mc
/etc/mc/edit.indent.rc
/etc/mc/filehighlight.ini
/etc/mc/mc.default.keymap
/etc/mc/mc.emacs.keymap
/etc/mc/mc.ext
/etc/mc/mc.keymap
/etc/mc/mc.menu
/etc/mc/mcedit.menu
/etc/mc/sfs.ini
/etc/profile.d/mc.csh
/etc/profile.d/mc.sh
/usr/bin/mc
/usr/bin/mcdiff
/usr/bin/mcedit
/usr/bin/mcview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/515000e136862f912951e0564040ac8fce9954
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/5495bc8561fd96bf8ba8abcf57273d57fc0c14
/usr/libexec/mc
/usr/libexec/mc/cons.saver
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/archive.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/doc.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/image.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/misc.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/package.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/sound.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/text.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/video.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/ext.d/web.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/README
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/README.extfs
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/a+
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/apt+
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/audio
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/bpp
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/changesetfs
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/deb
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/deba
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/debd
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/dpkg+
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/gitfs+
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/hp48+
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/iso9660
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/lslR
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/mailfs
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/patchfs
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/patchsetfs
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/rpm
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/rpms+
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/trpm
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/u7z
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uace
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/ualz
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uar
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uarc
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uarj
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/ucab
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uha
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/ulha
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/ulib
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/urar
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uzip
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uzoo
/usr/libexec/mc/fish
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/README.fish
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/append
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/chmod
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/chown
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/fexists
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/get
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/hardlink
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/info
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/ln
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/ls
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/mkdir
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/mv
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/rmdir
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/send
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/unlink
/usr/libexec/mc/fish/utime
/usr/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.csh
/usr/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
/usr/libexec/mc/mc.csh
/usr/libexec/mc/mc.sh
/usr/share/doc/mc
/usr/share/doc/mc/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/mc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mc/README
/usr/share/licenses/mc
/usr/share/licenses/mc/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_CA/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/szl/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mc.mo
/usr/share/man/es/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/hu/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mcedit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mcview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/mc.1.gz
/usr/share/mc
/usr/share/mc/examples
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.0.sh
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.1.sh
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.3.sh
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.4.sh
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.5.sh
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.6.sh
/usr/share/mc/examples/macros.d/macro.7.sh
/usr/share/mc/help
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp.es
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp.hu
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp.it
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp.pl
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp.ru
/usr/share/mc/help/mc.hlp.sr
/usr/share/mc/hints
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.af
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ar
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.az
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.be
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.bg
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ca
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.cs
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.da
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.de
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.de_CH
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.el
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.en_GB
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.eo
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.es
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.et
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.eu
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.fa
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.fi
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.fr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.fr_CA
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.gl
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.hr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.hu
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ia
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.id
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.it
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.it_IT
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ja
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ka
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.kk
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ko
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.lt
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.nl
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.pl
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.pt
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.pt_BR
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ro
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ru
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sk
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sl
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sv
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sv_SE
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.szl
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.te
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.tr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.uk
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.uz
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.zh
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.zh_CN
/usr/share/mc/mc.charsets
/usr/share/mc/mc.lib
/usr/share/mc/skins
/usr/share/mc/skins/dark.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/darkfar.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/default.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/double-lines.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/featured.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/gotar.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/gray-green-purple256.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/gray-orange-blue256.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/mc46.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarcon16-defbg.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarcon16.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarcon16root-defbg.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarcon16root.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarin256-defbg.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarin256.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarin256root-defbg.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/modarin256root.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/nicedark.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/sand256.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/seasons-autumn16M.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/seasons-spring16M.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/seasons-summer16M.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/seasons-winter16M.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/xoria256.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/yadt256-defbg.ini
/usr/share/mc/skins/yadt256.ini
/usr/share/mc/syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/PKGBUILD.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/ada95.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/as.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/aspx.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/assembler.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/awk.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/c.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/cabal.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/changelog.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/cmake.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/cs.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/css.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/cuda.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/cxx.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/cython.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/d.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/debian-changelog.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/debian-control.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/debian-description.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/debian-sources-list.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/diff.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/dlink.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/dos.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/ebuild.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/eiffel.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/erlang.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/f90.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/filehighlight.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/fortran.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/glsl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/go.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/haskell.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/html.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/idl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/ini.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/j.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/jal.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/java.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/js.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/latex.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/lisp.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/lkr.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/lsm.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/lua.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/m4.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/mail.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/makefile.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/ml.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/named.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/nemerle.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/nroff.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/octave.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/opencl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/osl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/pascal.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/perl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/php.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/po.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/povray.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/procmail.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/properties.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/puppet.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/python.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/r.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/ruby.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/sh.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/slang.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/smalltalk.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/spec.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/sql.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/strace.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/swig.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/syntax.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/tcl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/texinfo.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/tt.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/unknown.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/verilog.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/vhdl.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/xml.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/yaml.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/yum-repo.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/yxx.syntax

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.