You dont need MC to do any of these things. nano or vi/vim can do the same things. Nano has the least learning-curve, and vi takes a few days of playing to get used to everything the editor can do.

Instead of MC:

cd /to/path #(to move to dir)
vi ./filename #(to edit)

This will score you Un*x-points as well as save you some space.

If you still want MC you can find it in the devel repo (which has to be added, google it.)