Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?
I have mc installed on a mouse-less system with no problems.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:50:57AM -0600, David Densmore wrote:
> No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required
> package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install
> mc. Since mc operates perfectly well without a mouse I can't imagine
> why this is so, but there it is. I guess I could go ahead and install
> libgpmg even though there physically is no mouse present, but won't
> that create problems for libgpmg setup?
>
> How can I force install and config of mc without a mouse?
>
> Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>
> >> When I installed Midnight Commander I recall that dpkg setup required
> >> a mouse to be present even thought mc can be operated without one.
> >>
> >> Now I'm about to install Debian on a machine which will have no mouse
> >> and want to use mc. What can I do?
> >
> >basically i see no problem with using mc without a mouse. the only thing i
> >could not figure out how to do without a mouse is, how to access the
> >history lists - but probably i should RTFM. ;-)
>
>
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