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The proper way to install Midnight Commander on MacOSX.

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There are a lot of posts out there that purport to contain the answer on how to properly install Home Brew on MacOSX and then install Midnight Commander, but a lot of the posts contain commands that give errors. This is how to do it properly.

Run this command in a terminal.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Then, once that command has completed, install the app easily.

brew install midnightcommander

This is how easy this is. And then you may use the awesome Midnight Commander file manager on Macintosh OSX. Other Linux apps such as mpv may also be installed this way, enabling fast and sleek movie watching.

Installing mpv on Macintosh OS with HomeBrew.
Installing mpv on Macintosh OS with HomeBrew.

Now, after downloading the packages, we are installing them.

Installing the packages for mpv.
Installing the packages for mpv.

The function keys are accessed by pressing FN, and then the top function keys. This will allow you to use Midnight Commander properly.


2 thoughts on “The proper way to install Midnight Commander on MacOSX.”

  1. Firstly ‘brew install midnightcommander’ does not work. Brew prompts ‘To install midnight-commander, run brew install midnight-commander’. Secondly ‘brew install midnight-commander’ failed as well:

    Error: midnight-commander: SHA256 mismatch
    Expected: 46db2f10f306e163e4571b8974d44cd37078aae04295bbf08b253655df3265f4
    Actual: 39116c94e76630f22d54cd82c3cea308565f1715f716d1b2527f1c9c969ba4d9
    File: /Users/mbp/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/29f6e07723e34d86ce6135582724283803fd407f918bc2244b200e1287ff9ec4–sqlite-autoconf-3430100.tar.gz
    To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.

    Reply

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