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The simplest way I’ve found to install Midnight Commander in Mac OS Lion is to use rudix package.
Rudix is a collection of Unix software packages for OS X Lion (plus Snow Leopard).
http://code.google.com/p/rudix/
If you need step by step instruction go inside
1. Install rudix, just open terminal and type:
curl -O http://rudix.googlecode.com/hg/Ports/rudix/rudix.py
sudo python rudix.py install rudix
2. Install mc using rudix, type in terminal:
sudo rudix install mc
3. Now you can run it by typing
sudo mc