On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 23:50:59 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Stretch comes with 4.8.18, which for me is unusable due to an upstream bug > fixed > in 4.8.19[1], but 4.8.19 is unusable due to another upstream bug, not fixed > until 4.8.20[2]. I configured stretch-backports in sources.list, but > apparently > it has no newer mc version available. 4.8.21 is on the mirrors, so I > downloaded > it from a mirror and installed it with dpkg. It works fine, but now apt is > broken because it thinks mc is broken and needs to be removed by "apt > --fix-broken install". Apparently apt thinks mc depends on different packages > than dpkg does: > > # apt install inxi > ... > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > inxi : Depends: gawk but it is not going to be installed > mc : Depends: libext2fs2 (>= 1.37) > Depends: libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7) but 1.20.4-6.2+b1 is to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' > > # dpkg-reconfigure mc > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: mc is broken or not fully installed > > Am I the only one who needs mc to work in Stretch? What do others do? > > [1] fubar right pane at startup with saved long file listing > http://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3758
I've not used this facility so I didn't know mc was "broken". I would be tempted to try a workaround. Can you define a hot key which obeys the keystrokes necessary to reselect Long View, but which finishes by redefining itself to its original use. Just a untested suggestion. Of course this might not work for you even if it's possible: I have all my mc configuration in readonly files (owned by root where readonly isn't enough) so it starts up consistently. > [2] VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat > st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821) > http://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3821 I couldn't understand this one as it only seemed to describe the code necessary to fix a bug whose symptoms weren't fully described. Cheers, David.
