midnight commander in putty 64-bit xp and debian
 

Midnight commander won't load. Each time I tried, I had to kill the putty session and begin a new one because the first session became unresponsive. Now I've noticed that when I right click, I get some weird output.

I've googled this with no help. I've tried suggestions I found from other LQ threads, but it was a different situation. The problem doesn't seem to be happening because it is an ncurses program. Mutt uses ncurses, and it works just fine. I was going to try someone's suggestion for ncurses problems, but I found out I already had "use background colour to erase screen" enabled.

I understand the "seting up mc ...." message after install. I do NOT understand that same message when user Chris tries to start up mc.

This is what I got on my AMD64:

Note that I installed 4.6.1-8 from Debian Testing. I did this on a remote ssh console session, and mc worked fine.

How exactly did you get this output:

Why is the "1-6_i386.deb) ..." on the second line? You are not trying to run the .deb, are you?

jlinkels

Mine Debian 4.0 install is on encrypted lvm2, but this computer can only support 32 bit software which is what I need to get the wireless usb network adapter working.

Maybe I should upgrade from Debian Stable to Testing to get a slightly newer Midnight Commander. In order to get the output, I hit enter on my keybaord. I also hit y and n later on for yes and no, and then I forgot what other keys I hit after that. I was probably trying control c to kill the process and get back to a shell.

No, I am not. All I did was hit enter to run mc. Nothng happened, and I wasn't took back to a shell either, so I hit enter to see what would happen and that caused the output, weird, strange, I don't know what's going on. The only thing I can think of is to upgrade to Debian Testing.