1. Open the System menu, Administration, Software Sources window
2. On the Ubuntu Software tab, click on Community-Maintained Open
Source software (universe) so that it's checked.
3. Close the Software Sources window.
4. Open the System menu, Administration, Synaptic Package Manager
5. In the Search box enter: mc

VOILA!!  You're on your way to having mc installed.........

John



On Jul 24, 1:07 pm, spokeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my machine. MC (Midnight Commander) is
> not available in any of the repositories, but I can get a source
> tar.gz from their home site. I tried to install following their
> install recommendations, but it ain't working. The MC install
> instructions say to run configure first.
>
>            $ ./configure
>
> but that gets me this error, and I'm stuck.
>
>              configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in
> config "."/config
>
> There is an install.sh in /config, but it's a zero-byter.
>
> Ideas? Help?
>
> Thx;
> Mark
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