Open alternatives to propietary software (XI): double panel explorers (NC clones)

Double panel explorer, similars to old Norton Commander in DOS, are very easy to use and useful to navigate in different devices and paths (HDD, DVD-ROM, etc...).

There is a lot of clones of NC and a lot of them are open source, these are my recomendations:

mc (midnight commander)

The ideal solution for browsing the GNU/Linux paths from the console, it is one of the first programs I install in any distro.

You can install it from your distro software center or from console with these commands as root:

apt-get install mc # Debian, ubuntu or similar

yum install mc # Red hat, Centos, Fedora or similar

gnome-commander

Very useful in gnome or any other graphic enviroment.

You can install it from your distro software center or from console with these commands as root:

apt-get install gnome-commander mild # Debian, ubuntu or similar

yum install gnome-commander # Red hat, Centos, Fedora or similar

All these software can do, at least, these operations with files and folders: copy, move, delete, edit, search content, change permissions and ownership and much more.

But there is a lot of open source clones I still don't prove it.

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• Alternativas al software propietario (XI): los comandantes.

Copy midnight commander (mc) from raspbian to recalbox

Midnight commander is the best double-panel file manager for GNU/Linux console. This is a very useful tool for newbies and lazy users like myself, by example using ssh protocol:

The easier way to get mc in recalbox is "steal" it to a raspbian we previously installed it.
These are the files and folders you need to copy:

Rasbian	►►►	Recalbox
/usr/bin/mc	...	/usr/bin/mc
/usr/lib/mc	...	/usr/lib/mc
/etc/mc	...	/etc/mc
/usr/share/mc	...	/usr/share/mc
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgpm.so.2	...	/lib/libgpm.so.2
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libssh2.so.1	...	/lib/libssh2.so.1

You can copy the files by ssh, using the same mc if you have GNU/Linux in your PC (plug the cart to the PC), from raspbian if you have this system and recalbox, WinSCP if you use Windows, etc...

If you haven't raspbian here you are all the necesary files, each in the correct path.

Warning: you probably need copy again each time Recalbox will be updated (This is a fast and simple operation and Recalbox is updated every long time).
Anyway, if you want mc will be part of recalbox you can join to the request I asked in the official forum.