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Giorgos Saridakis
Asked: 2020-05-27 08:56:46 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 20.04 C-Kermit 9.0.302

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C-Kermit is, to this day, unavailable for apt installation for Ubuntu 20.04.

I got the tar from columbia.edu, tried to compile but failed.

ssh telnet

3 Answers

  1. I had success compiling the source from the C-Kermit “Daily” Source-Code Archive on Ubuntu 20.04

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  2. As this is something I have a need for and until a formal release is out, I patched makefile and ckucmd.c and Kermit compiles normally.

    first of all, you'll need to install libpam development->
    sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev

    C-Kermit can be obtained from:
    http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck90.html

    and finally, a link to the two files changed:
    https://mega.nz/file/DL4nnZhD#1-Wr-QnywqsjNFxMstz4L0b8cf3eBPv6vt9DycpGoUY

    build with->
    make linux

    Hope this has helped those who use kermit for file transfer, through ssh or telnet.

    Thanks.

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  3. In the makefile, under the linux target, replace section:

    HAVE_LIBCURSES=''; \
if test -f /usr/lib64/libncurses.so || \
   test -f /usr/lib/libncurses.a  || \
   test -f /usr/lib/libncurses.so; then \
  HAVE_LIBCURSES='-lncurses'; \

    with section:

    HAVE_LIBCURSES=''; \
if test -f /usr/lib64/libncurses.so || \
   test -f /usr/lib/libncurses.a  || \
   test -f /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so  || \
   test -f /usr/lib/libncurses.so; then \
  HAVE_LIBCURSES='-lncurses'; \

    Since someone deemed it useful to change the old /usr/lib, /usr/lib64 structure.

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