mc doesn't open zip files

Problem
After I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04, I also updated mc from source. The current stable version is 4.8.1.3. However, these recent versions of mc introduced some novelties. For instance, using the old mc.ext files, they won’t open archives :(

Solution
Another novelty is that the folder of mc was moved from “~/.mc” to “~/.config/mc“. So I moved my mc.ext file to the new location. I also had a symbolic link called “bindings” that pointed to mc.ext, it was moved too. Then I removed the obsolete folder ~/.mc.

Now, update your mc.ext file to the new format in order to open archives:

cd ~/.config/mc
mv mc.ext mc.ext.old
cat mc.ext.old | sed 's|\(Open.*\)#\(.*\)$|\1/\2://|' > mc.ext

Restart mc and opening the archives should work now.

This tip is from here.

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