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ozh
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Member # 131

posted October 01, 2001 05:35 PM

I installed midnight commander as well as the two libraries listed as required. However when I type 'mc' I get segmentation fault with no further installations. All packages installed as root; MacOS 10.1. Please help!

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apex
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posted October 02, 2001 12:04 AM

All software on this site is not necessarily compatible with Mac OS 10.1. In a few weeks I'll have a copy and will work out any problems.

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ozh
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Member # 131

posted October 03, 2001 10:34 AM

I niticed that your page said that mc was "ported by fink" so I took a look Aat the fink distribution. There I've found that they disabled the console mode, leaving only the functionality which is used for gnome file manager. If anyone with experience of porting things could look at that, it would be great: I don't know any other norton commander clone that would run on a mac.

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JLB
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Member # 153

posted October 11, 2001 06:11 PM

Not exactly the same thing but mc hangs when i press other keys than tab: I use an spanish keyboard iso, Os 10.1

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apex
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posted October 12, 2001 01:05 AM

I'm creating a new package of the latest mc release (54). Perhaps it will solve the problems with10.1. Let me know if it works for you.

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ozh
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Member # 131

posted October 12, 2001 08:19 AM

Where can I find your new package? It was in Misc. section before, but now I don't seem to find it there.

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kananga
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Member # 164

posted October 14, 2001 08:01 PM

I have had the "segmentation fault" problem with both of the mc ports I've tried. I tried the old one under 10.0.4 and the latest just now under 10.1. In each case I've also installed the extras required. Does this port of mc work for anyone? Any suggestions?

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apex
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posted October 15, 2001 12:06 AM

I will test the current mc package ASAP. In the meantime, be sure you have GTK+, and glib installed, along with a running X windows server.

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apex
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posted October 15, 2001 12:19 AM

I quickly tested mc on my recently setup (but stil 10.0.0) g4. I found the gnome libraries, along with orbit, esound, and imlib are required. I will create a deps package for mc soon.

[ October 15, 2001: Message edited by: apex ]

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kananga
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Member # 164

posted October 15, 2001 06:55 AM

Thanks! I'll install those packages once they're available and test it out.

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apex
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posted October 15, 2001 03:44 PM

Here you go. http://macosx.forked.net/ports/mc-deps-4.5.54.pkg.tgz

Install this package and gmc should work. You will probably need to run

code:

/usr/local/bin/gnome-name-service&

If gnome-name-service is not running when you start gmc you will get an error about an assert failure on line 606 of blah.c (I don't remember the exact error, but i do think it was line 606 )

As always, let me know if you have problems, or if it works for you.

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ozh
Junior Member
Member # 131

posted October 16, 2001 06:44 PM

apex, thanx for trying to port it! Unfortunately stil had no luck running it. It looks like you did not include version .54 in your installer. When i tried to run version .51 that I had before (by typing "mc" after the things you instructed to do) I got the same segmentation fault.

gmc indeed runs. gmc is a GUI version of mc that was used with gnome sometime ago. There are plenty of GUI file managers, not to mention the apple's Finder. It would be nice if people were able to run mc - which is a console file manager - which has a lot of nice things like built-in editor and which does not require to use a mouse.

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apex
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posted October 16, 2001 11:20 PM

I couldn't get the console version to work. its GUI or nothin.

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ozh
Junior Member
Member # 131

posted October 17, 2001 11:57 AM

I'll try writing the people who maintain the sources...

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jms
Junior Member
Member # 169

posted October 17, 2001 08:43 PM

I was getting seg faults until I installed ncurses. Now it runs but as others noted it seems to hang or maybe the screen isn't refreshing so I can't tell what;s going on. It kinda seems like something's not quite right with the mac vt100 emulation.

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ozh
Junior Member
Member # 131

posted October 24, 2001 10:36 AM

Found a port that works!
Enjoy: http://www.biermann.org/philipp/OSX/

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