GNU Midnight Commander (also referred to as MC) is a user shell with text-mode full-screen interface. It can be run on the OSX Terminal, just like in xterm and other terminal emulators.
Next to official release of stable sources, this universal binary (i386, ppc) built (without source code modification) and linked with following libraries:
– gettext v0.18.1.1
– glib v2.21.6
– pkg-config v0.23
This release requires and works Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, and tested on 10.5 Leopard (PPC/x86), 10.6 Snow Leopard (x86), 10.7 Lion (x86), 10.8 Mountain Lion (x86), 10.9 Mavericks (x86), 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14.
This release will not work on Mac OS Catalina 10.5 and up, please switch to Brew package: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/midnight-commander
Simple install in Terminal: https://brewinstall.org/Install-midnight-commander-on-Mac-with-Brew/
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null brew install midnight-commander
Download latest installer package: mc-4.8.12-bin-osx-universal.zip
Additional console tools in the package (installed onto “/usr/local/bin”):
– catdoc: catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output. Therefore it does same work for .doc files, as unix cat command for plain ASCII files. It is now accompanied by xls2csv – program which converts Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file, and catppt – utility to extract textual information from Powerpoint files.
– iftop: iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.
– odt2txt: odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts produced by LibreOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice and others.
– unrar: Command line decompressor for RAR files.
– GNU wget: GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.
Hello, does not install.
ppc; 10.5.8
failed, installer does not have permission for writing in “/”
thanks
Hi,
Could you tell me how you compile mc? I want to try and compile the latest release .15. I keep having problems with pkg and getlib seeing each other. Do you have some steps you follow?
Thanks
Russ Urquhart
U can use Rudix for that. http://madjack.ru/2016/02/mc-mac-os-x-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2-%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F-mac-os-x-rudix.html (Its on russian, but u can use Google Translate). Or just gor for Rudix home page.
New release of Midnight Commander requires newer libc and other packages – i’ve not yet a build system for it yet…
How can I uninstall?
Hello Louise, thanks for your great job! Your package is working very well on Mountain Lion.
Greetings from Germany,
Jürgen
hello.
How to uninstall?
to install type in the terminal:
sudo installer -verbose -pkg downloaded-MC-package-path-name.mpkg -target /
Very nice indeed. Works just like on Linux.
Hello! Im trying to start MC in the Single Mode (cmd+s) from the command line from usr/local/bin but i have an error. Is it OK?
Could you post error message here?
Hi LouiSe,
I want to install mc^2 branch of mc http://www.typo.co.il/~mooffie/mc-lua/docs/html/index.html that supports Lua language extensions, and make mc really powerful.
For that, I need to compile from sources, preferably latest version.
Is there instructions on how to do this?
Thank you.
Considering re-compiling the latest mc on macOS Sierra 10.12.1.
I have installed glib2 @2.50.2_0 using MacPorts.
Do you have instructions on what paths to give configure please?
Sorry for a stupid question. I’m using mac not for a long time yet. Installation has been done successfully. But I don’t understand how to run the app. No any icons appears after installation (( Searching on the disk by key words – no luck. Nothing is there except installation package.
Hi Andrew,
Midnight Commander is a command-line application, just start Terminal, and type “mc” to start…
Thanks, this package works perfect on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.
Do you plan to release a new package for mc 4.8.18 ?
Thanks so much from UK. Working fine on Sierra.
Thanks a lot for this! Looking forward to 4.8.18 and 4.8.19 binaries!
Paul, what version did you install on Sierra?
LouiSe, Are there Mac OS Sierra binaries yet for 4.8.19 ?
Don’t want to install if there is nothing stable on Sierra.
Thanks.
Richard: I’ve El Capitan (10.11.6) now, but i think this (ppc+x86) binary should work on 10.12 too…
Awesome !
Hi, thanks !
Quick question…does this have smb support or I am doing something wrong ? I’m missing the smb link in the menu….
Thanks ~
This version supports SSH/SCP and FTP only…
Hi
I installed it but I cannot open the application. Where exactly on the disk it is installed?
Regards
does not work on ibook g3 mac os x tiger (wrong cpu type)
Martin: please check your mc binary with Terminal:
Terminal: “mc” or “/usr/local/bin/mc”
Hi,
mc (ver. 4.8.12) does not work (not started ) on MacOS Catalina 10.15
terminal: mc
-bash: /usr/local/bin/mc: Bad CPU type in executable
what wrong ?
Sorry my MC release targets older (10.4 – 10.14) systems – OSX Catalina (10.15) lacks 32bit and Universal binary support.
Install from Brew package: https://brewinstall.org/Install-midnight-commander-on-Mac-with-Brew/
Thank you …