Ubuntu 20.04 C-Kermit 9.0.302

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 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.

Answer 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.

Answer 4

I'm the C-Kermit author. C-Kermit 10.0 is in Beta test, please look here:

https://kermitproject.org/ckupdates.html

The current makefile has a completely different way of dealing with curses.

Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project fdc@columbia.edu