Midnight Commander where art thou?
Oh boy, I'm attempting to add the things I know and love to this new install.
Am I not accessing the channels correctly or has something happend to Midnight Commander..
I am fond of the old MC lol :)
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Active Contributor
170 points
Oh I did.. mc not found.
I must have done something to yum.. I did add RepoForge to things
I will do a reboot.
Active Contributor
170 points
Okay, I am wondering what I did..
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
rhel-6-desktop-rpms | 3.7 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package mc available.
Error: Nothing to do
Help :(
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Ah, it's not in the Desktop channel. If your account has a Workstation or Server subscription, you can access the package directly via mc-4.7.0.2-3.el6.x86_64.rpm.
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
It's in the Workstation and Server channels:
# yum info mc
Available Packages
Name : mc
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 4.7.0.2
Release : 3.el6
Size : 1.6 M
Repo : rhel-x86_64-server-6
Summary : User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell
License : GPLv2
Description : 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.
It's also available for RHEL5. Perhaps your system is not subscribed to RHN/RHSM?
Active Contributor
170 points
Oh No wonder!
My Workstation had and will again have a Workstation subscription and I did follow yum install mc then to get mc.
Interesting that desktop doesn't have access..
Active Contributor
170 points
Humm.. Do I go to the Fedora Repo then for mc if I only have a Desktop subscription?
Direct link fails.
Active Contributor
170 points
Okay,
I am sure I getting tired but I am not connectiong the dots on not subscribed to RHN/RHSM
Perhaps this a DOH! Moment.. lol :)
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
You could install a package of MC from Fedora 12, maybe even F13 or F14, though I'd probably be inclined to go for a CentOS package.
Definitely don't add the CentOS repository to your system! You might then pull in many other packages from CentOS. This would change your system from supported RHEL to an unsupported mix of RHEL and CentOS.
If you aren't comfortable with finding and installing the individual CentOS package, and ensuring that Midnight Commander is the only third-party package on the system, then it may be in your best interests to contact Sales and upgrade your Desktop subscription to a Workstation one. That would allow you to install MC from the supported channel.
Active Contributor
170 points
How odd that Midnight Commander ois free for Fedora and not included for subscription to Desktop for this Laptop.
It simply isn't a workstation level device. Not intended to be trusted with sensitive work that I do on the workstation.
Is it that for a "Desk Top" usage that folks are affraid to allow users that much power?
Perhaps I am not underswtanding the social structure of subscriptions yes?
Would I be a good member to suggest a change to add MC to Desktop?
Pardon the rant but I am curious.
My background is one of software development at home so I am unsure of what realm the rest of the Red Hat people live in.
Thanks.
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
I can't speak to the reasons behind the decision to place MC in the Workstation and Server channels and not the Desktop channel (that's not my decision to make) but I'm more than happy to raise a Request For Enhancement to have it included in the Desktop channel. Product Management can then make a new decision based on your request.
The reference for the feature request is Bug 1073700. There's no SLA around responses to RFEs, so it may be some time before we get a response, but as I get updates I'll reply back here and let you know.
Active Contributor
170 points
I did find an rpm that installed.
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/centos/6.5/x86_64/Packages/mc-4.7.0.2-3.el6.x86_64.html
I also sent a email requesting this simple utility be added to desktop.
I think I have the OS-Install blues. I'm setting up this laptop from scratch.
So far so good.. Getting GHex to work now that looks challenging.
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
You have good taste in tools :)
GHex is also in EPEL, you can add it like we did with Transmission in our other thread.
# yum info ghex
Available Packages
Name : ghex
Arch : x86_64
Version : 2.24.0
Release : 4.el6
Size : 942 k
Repo : epel
Summary : Binary editor for GNOME
URL : http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ghex/
License : GPLv2+
Description : GHex allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in
: either hex or ascii. A must for anyone playing games that use
: non-ascii format for saving.
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