How to Install and Uninstall mc Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: May 15,2024

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

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "mc" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install mc on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


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

Learn how to uninstall mc on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: mc
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3:4.8.27-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Dmitry Smirnov
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1537
Provides: mcedit
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libext2fs2 (>= 1.37), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.59.2), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libslang2 (>= 2.2.4), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.8), mc-data (= 3:4.8.27-1)
Recommends: mime-support, perl, unzip, sensible-utils
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
Filename: pool/universe/m/mc/mc_4.8.27-1_amd64.deb
Size: 546930
MD5sum: bf5cf720b5b314090461a8f87b009c82
SHA1: eb5fdd1a7c9f6ae1d5c36927642620f3abfe4dc3
SHA256: 66e48e12cf5c09bc8e71173b24637d8c111f3ee063c8722844e73eb8625cbdca
SHA512: a85075f3e7bdbbc433458b24bdf612d555453cdb81e476e0bfc3932cd88618c5e9231724a92ad4b30d79d0441ea011d7899b5d037abe992aac5cca696658b396
Homepage: https://www.midnight-commander.org
Description: Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager
Description-md5: 252a5c5aeeb7425db45357d4ab8aa55f