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minicom - A unix telecomm program ChangeLog

Web site:

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/

HOWTO

# minicom 2.1
# ===========
# If you were running minicom 2.0.00 from the previous revision of this
# howto, cd into the source dir and run 'make uninstall' before running
# through this howto.

cd
test -f installed/minicom-2.1.tar.gz &&
mv installed/minicom-2.1.tar.gz .
test ! -f minicom-2.1.tar.gz &&
wget http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/123/minicom-2.1.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
( gpg --list-keys E931F405 > /dev/null 2>&1 || gpg --recv-keys E931F405 ) &&
wget -nc http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/124/minicom-2.1.tar.gz.asc &&
gpg --verify minicom-2.1.tar.gz.asc && rm minicom-2.1.tar.gz.asc

cd /usr/local/src
find -type d -maxdepth 1 -name "minicom-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/minicom-2.1.tar.gz
cd minicom-2.1
chown -R root.root .
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-nls
make
removepkg minicom
test -f /usr/local/etc/minirc.dfl && mv /usr/local/etc/minirc.dfl /etc/
make install
cd
mkdir -p installed
rm -f installed/minicom-*.tar.*
mv minicom-2.1.tar.gz installed/