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-
- Read the INSTALL file for the complete instructions.
-
- You need the NCurses 1.8.5 library. The Midnight Commander can also
- work with an older NCurses or the default System V curses library on
- Solaris, Irix etc., but some of the keys and screen updates will not
- work correctly.
-
- 1. Configure the package for your system.
-
- Normally, you just `cd' to the directory containing the package's
- source code and type `./configure'.
-
- The most often needed options to configure are following:
-
- `--prefix=PATH'
- By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
- `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
- installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
- `configure' the option `--prefix=PATH'.
-
- `--with-ncurses=PATH'
- Use this flag if your ncurses is not installed in any of the
- places configure checks (/usr/include, /usr/include/ncurses,
- /usr/local/include and /usr/local/include/ncurses). The
- configure script will append `lib' and `include' to find the
- libncurses.a and ncurses.h files respectively.
-
- `--with-gpm-mouse=PATH'
- Use this flag if your GPM mouse package is not installed in
- a standard place. configure will append `lib' and `include'
- to find the libgpm.a and gpm.h files respectively.
-
- 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
-
- 3. Type `make install' (as root) to install programs, data files, and
- documentation.
-
- 3b. If you're on a Linux system, type `make install.saver' (as root)
- to install the `cons.saver' utility, which allows the Midnight
- Commander to save and restore the screen contents.
-
- 4. Type `mc' and enjoy!
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