MCHOME environment variable

[Andrew V. Samoilov]

Myron Turner wrote:
> I have put a copy of mc on a linux machine where I don't have rights to place 
> files in the /usr/lib directory.  According to the man page, I can accommodate 
> this situation by setting the MCHOME environment variable to the directory in 
> which the /usr/lib/mc files appear.    Is MCHOME a substitute for /usr, for 
> /usr/lib, or for /usr/lib/mc.  Actually, I believe I've tried them all.  

It seems you are using mc 4.5.55 or older with obsolete man page.  In 
this case you can use MC_LIBDIR environment variable which substitutes 
/usr/lib/mc in your case.

After mc-4.6-pre1 you can use MC_DATADIR variable for this goal.

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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov