Midnight Commander missing?

[astromeier]

Hi all
today I updated to V20.1 with a fresh install - all went good!
Thanks to all developers.

But I could not find mc or mc-light
Is the package no more supported?

tia
Thomas

[bobbis]

on console you can do:

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pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libsigsegv-2.11.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/gawk-4.1.4_1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/mc-light-4.1.40.p9_11.txz

regards

[franco]

Hi Thomas,

mc-light was removed from FreeBSD ports:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/245531baa1d


Cheers,
Franco

[astromeier]

Dear Bobbis and Franco,
thanks for reply!
Thomas

[Luc3k]

Yesterday I installed OPNsense (21.1) and i'm trying install Midnight Commander. It is posibility to install mc on 21.1?

[franco]

% git grep misc.mc
MOVED:misc/mc-light||2019-10-16|Has expired: Unfetchable, unmaintained

The port we used was removed by FreeBSD, but I see there is also misc/mc-nox11 and I will try to get it into 21.1.1 if it fits...


Cheers,
Franco

[Luc3k]

Old habits. I can't imagine working without a mc. I would be very grateful if there was any way to restore mc/mc-nox11.

I am still looking for a solution on how to change the resolution in the console to 1024x768 ... I cannot find the appropriate configuration.

PS.
OPNsense made a great impression on me. A piece of good work.

[franco]

Well, not restore since we never had it, but don't mind me nitpicking:

https://github.com/opnsense/tools/commit/d8761679ed8

Should work beginning with 21.1.1:

# pkg install mc-nox11

About screen resolution I'm not sure if there is something adequate for console to switch to higher resolution. I always used a light window manager like i3 to achieve this... but not on OPNsense itself.


Cheers,
Franco

PS: Thank you!

[Luc3k]

Of course, I meant the resolution displayed on the monitor connected to the server using the VGA connector. This one looks 640x480 or 800x600 which makes it a bit difficult to observe. Is there any way to get a higher resolution when starting the server?

PS. Greetings from Poland, Nowy Sącz city :-)

[franco]

You can try your luck with https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/basics/#consoles-vidcontrol maybe.


Cheers from Lützen, DE :D

Franco