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For those who would like to share their favorite, lightweight, TUI (cli), file managers... here we go.

Here are a few tui file managers that I have enjoyed 'trying' to use:
- fff (mentioned by me in this thread) https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff
- vifm (was fun when I was trying to learn VI keybinding convention/ style tools) https://vifm.info/
- ranger (nice but not all that light & fast) https://github.com/ranger/ranger
- lf (ranger-like) https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
- nnn (I always manage to break this when I use it) https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Good old mc is worth a mention

anticapitalista wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2023 3:03 pm Good old mc is worth a mention

Most certainly!

manyroads wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:55 pm - nnn (I always manage to break this when I use it) https://github.com/jarun/nnn

nnn changed its keybindings sometime between version 3 and version 4 which made it much easier to use, in my opinion. If you had problems with it in the past because of an old package in a Debian repository, it may be worth revisiting with the latest release.

DukeComposed wrote: Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:41 pm nnn changed its keybindings sometime between version 3 and version 4 which made it much easier to use, in my opinion. If you had problems with it in the past because of an old package in a Debian repository, it may be worth revisiting with the latest release.

It certainly has been 'quite awhile' since I used 'nnn'. I may give it another "go".

As a matter of routine, i just checked the 'bookworm-backports', and couldn't believe my eyes

Theres a New Kid on the Block arriving ... FAR for Linux (far2l)
This wonderful peace piece of software helped me a lot in surviving the last 10 sour years as a windows-server-core admin

see:
https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=far2l
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/far2l

kind regards

l0dr3

@l0dr3 Wow... that's a real blast from the past! Not sure whether I'll ever use it for any length of time but I fondly remember the days when this was one the basic must-haves on a PC, not least because it was done by the same guy who created (and still works on) WinRAR. I do not use the Windows version anymore but I very much use the Linux CLI version, with a licence dating back to... I don't even know .

THX for sharing this .

l0dr3 wrote: Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:07 pm As a matter of routine, i just checked the 'bookworm-backports', and couldn't believe my eyes
Theres a New Kid on the Block arriving ... FAR for Linux (far2l)

You are probably on MX23. On my MX21 I don't have this option. I tried to follow these steps:

https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

I installed dependencies first:

apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev libx11-dev libxi-dev libpcre3-dev libxerces-c-dev libuchardet-dev libssh-dev libssl-dev libsmbclient-dev libnfs-dev libneon27-dev libarchive-dev cmake pkg-config g++ git

Then ran this command:

apt-get install far2l

But second command returned:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package far2l

Is there the only way to get this file manager to work on MX21, to follow those self making and building steps? I can't find any DEB file either

@Buck Fankers

On github, there is ... statement ...

In older distributions: use libpcre2-dev and libwxgtk3.0-dev instead of libpcre3-dev and libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev

*maybe* a solution?

pp: and YES - i am on MX23 XFCE

@Buck Fankers There's also this:
https://github.com/spvkgn/far2l-portable/releases

The AppImage won't run here but the portable tar unpacks and works OOTB (though I'm also under MX23 so YMMV).