How To Install mc on Fedora 34
mc is User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mc on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mc.
Install mc on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install mc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mc
Install mc on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mc
mc Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/bb2ea843badbdb0ede9cbea4f80c9ee9196693
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/7597a8d0f19ccfce7649c37978b24ef7d95233
/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/unar
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/urar
/usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d/uwim
/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.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.fr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.fr_CA
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.ga
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.gl
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.hu
/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.ko
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.lt
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.nb
/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.sr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sv
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.sv_SE
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.tr
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.uk
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.zh
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.zh_CN
/usr/share/mc/hints/mc.hint.zh_TW
/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-plus.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/julia256.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/cobol.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/hive.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/kotlin.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/markdown.syntax
/usr/share/mc/syntax/meson.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/protobuf.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/rust.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/swift.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/ts.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/yabasic.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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.