How to Install and Uninstall mc Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 27,2024

You can also install and uninstall the mc on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mc" package

Please follow the steps below to install mc on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mc" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall mc on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mc package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mc
Version: 3:4.8.29-2
Installed-Size: 1490
Maintainer: Dmitry Smirnov
Architecture: amd64
Provides: mcedit
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libext2fs2 (>= 1.37), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.8), mc-data (= 3:4.8.29-2)
Recommends: mailcap, perl, sensible-utils, unzip
Suggests: arj, bzip2, catdvi | texlive-binaries, dbview, djvulibre-bin, epub-utils, file, genisoimage, gv, imagemagick, libaspell-dev, links | w3m | lynx, odt2txt, poppler-utils, python, python-boto, python-tz, unar, wimtools, xpdf | pdf-viewer, zip
Description: Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager
Description-md5: 252a5c5aeeb7425db45357d4ab8aa55f
Homepage: https://www.midnight-commander.org
Tag: admin::filesystem, devel::lang:perl, devel::library, implemented-in::c,
implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, interface::text-mode,
role::devel-lib, role::program, scope::application, scope::utility,
suite::gnu, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::browsing, use::editing,
use::organizing, works-with::archive, works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mc/mc_4.8.29-2_amd64.deb
Size: 522452
MD5sum: 3331d47093c60aa92e390d3baa2f4479
SHA256: f16c21844e85730a25e9c73d7e1eaaaeac064222f1b9aa26f97b3ca71f0b3e94