New Ubuntu User

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Sun Aug 7 20:27:39 UTC 2005


On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:16:30PM -0500, Don E. Kauffman wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm using Ubuntu on my Laptop. So far I like it for the most part. It's
>clean, easy to set up and fun. I'd consider using it for my desktop,
>however there is one show stopper. I can't find a tool that I really
>like to use for file maintenance called Midnight Commander (mc). I
>haven't been able to download that from the debian repositories because
>I haven't gotten a hold of the correct public key. 
>
>This is what I'd like to know.
>
>A. are there reasons why mc is not included with the Ubuntu
>distribution? Is it non free software?
>
>B. How would I go about setting up the debian repository to get a copy.

mc is available in universe. Just uncomment the relevant lines in your
sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list), update your package lists and
install it.

/M

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