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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.

Giorgos Saridakis
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  • How did it fail? We can't help you if you don't give us any hints!! – Soren A May 26 '20 at 18:43
  • Also, C-kermit seems rather outdated. The page says:Version: 9.0.302, Released: 20 August 2011 – Soren A May 26 '20 at 18:47
  • ncurses was not detected from the original makefile and a POSIX dependency was unsuitably asked for in one of the source files. C-Kermit 9.0.302 is the last version from Columbia university. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol)#History – Giorgos Saridakis May 26 '20 at 18:51
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    "out of date" hardly covers it. But some of us are still supporting legacy dial-up services. It would be nice for us if ckermit stuck around ... – Frobozz Mar 02 '22 at 00:14
  • @Frobozz I use kermit to this date, ssh through it to more than one host service. It gives you the opportunity to transfer with kermit from the other side, while on the ssh session. I can remember a time when the internet was a university thing only, kermit was the only transfer protocol from the net. – Giorgos Saridakis Mar 02 '22 at 14:52

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

brett stevens
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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.

Giorgos Saridakis
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  • I found that the Columbia download links for cku302.tar.gz were bad, but googling that filename came up with some useful alternatives. – Chris Combs Aug 16 '20 at 20:44
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    @ChrisCombs here is the continued project http://www.kermitproject.org/ck90.html Actually, this doesn't need my patch anymore :) – Giorgos Saridakis Aug 16 '20 at 20:55
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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.

karel
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Vlad Iordachescu
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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 [email protected]

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