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Day Brown wrote:
>
> BTW: will BL run MC out of the box, or are there 
> dependancies that have to be installed first?

Instructions for installing mc on BasicLinux are at
the BasicLinux.

> And why, with all the confusion out there between 
> .rpm, .deb, tgz, gz, tar, or whatever, 

There's no confusion.  If you use RedHat (or similar),
you get an .rpm.  If you use Debian, you use a .deb.
If you use Slackware, you use a .tgz.  What's the
problem?  

Those packages are pre-compiled for particular 
distributions.  The source code (which will work 
on any distribution) is usually available too.
Take your pick.

> arent there Linux releases that are self extracting?

You miss the point.  There are significant differences
between distributions (eg. location/structure of config 
files, directory structure).  To avoid headaches, choose
a distribution and stick with. 

Cheers,
Steven