Some useful packages is not installed on devcloud, but you can easy install it locally for convenient work.
Lets install for example 7zip by hand :
1) First of all you have to set some paths in ~/.bash_profile
# =====================================================
var_add_path(){
# Use var_add_path "VAR" "/path/to/smth" "s|e"
# s - at the beginning; e - at the end
# echo "Adding $2 to $1 at the <start|end> $3"
tmp_var=$1
if [ -d "$2" ]; then
if [[ ":${!tmp_var}:" != *":$2:"* ]]; then
# For non-empty, only add if not already there
if [[ "$3" == "s" ]]; then
[[ -z "${!tmp_var}" ]] && export $1=$2 || export $1=$2:${!tmp_var}
else
[[ -z "${!tmp_var}" ]] && export $1=$2 || export $1=${!tmp_var}:$2
fi
fi
fi
}
# =====================================================
var_add_path "PATH" "$HOME/.local/bin" "s"
var_add_path "PATH" "$HOME/bin" "s"
var_add_path "PATH" "/bin" "e"
var_add_path "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" "$HOME/.local/lib" "e"
2) Get, unpack, change and install p7zip-full
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
apt download p7zip-full
dpkg -x p7zip-full_16.02+dfsg-6_amd64.deb p7zip
cd p7zip/usr/bin
sed -i 's,\/usr,$HOME\/.local,' 7za
sed -i 's,\/usr,$HOME\/.local,' 7z
mv * ~/bin/
cd ..
mv lib/* ~/.local/lib/
mv share/* ~/.local/share/
Now you can use 7z as usual.
Also you can install Midnight Commander and other packages by the same way. If it asks for some libs - place them to ~/.local/lib/
For MC you have to set in ~/.bashrc
MC_DATADIR=$HOME/.local/share/mc
To see how their MC searches for components, use the mc -F command
