FAR Archiver SetupAfter downloading the archiver, unpack the version for your operating system to a folder of your choice. No more than that is strictly required to start using the archiver, but things will work best if the tool is on your OS's search path: OS-X- Open Terminal
- Navigate to the directory where you placed far
- Issue sudo ln far /usr/bin/far
- Change to another directory and issue far. Far's help text will be printed to screen.
Windows XP- Start
- Right-click My Computer
- Select properties
- Select advanced
- Click Environment Variables
- Select the 'path' system variable
- Click Edit
- append ;your\directory\containing\far.exe at the end of the text shown at variable value. Do not include far.exe - enter only the directory far.exe resides in
- Close all property windows, (re)start a command line prompt and issue far.exe. Far's help text will be printed to screen.
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What about Linux installation? I followed the OS-X instructions above, and everything seems ok until I issue the far bin. Then I get the following error: (<unknown>:20723): Gtk-WARNING : cannot open display: I've tried googling about this, but no solution found...
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Problem (temporarily) solved by running windows far.exe on linux server through Wine!