[arm-allstar] installing minicom?

[Doug Crompton]

Sam,

 You did not say how you installed minicom. There are three variations listed in the repository -

community/minicom 2.7-1
    A serial communication program
community/picocom 1.7-3
    Minimal dumb-terminal emulation program, very much like minicom
community/tinyserial 20090305-2
    Small minicom replacement for accessing serial ports on Linux inspired by FreeBSD 'tip'
I installed minicom fine but did not try it....

[root at BBB-40638 sbin]# pacman -Ss minicom
community/minicom 2.7-1
    A serial communication program
community/picocom 1.7-3
    Minimal dumb-terminal emulation program, very much like minicom
community/tinyserial 20090305-2
    Small minicom replacement for accessing serial ports on Linux inspired by FreeBSD 'tip'
[root at BBB-40638 sbin]# pacman -S minicom
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (1): minicom-2.7-1

Total Download Size:    0.17 MiB
Total Installed Size:   0.84 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages ...
 minicom-2.7-1-armv7h            172.5 KiB   345K/s 00:01 [##############################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                            [##############################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                          [##############################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                               [##############################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                         [##############################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                       [##############################] 100%
(1/1) installing minicom                                  [##############################] 100%
Optional dependencies for minicom
    lrzsz: for xmodem, ymodem and zmodem file transfer protocols
[root at BBB-40638 sbin]#

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:53:43 -0700
From: kj6qfs at gmail.com
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Subject: [arm-allstar] installing minicom?

Hello All, I'd like to use minicom on my BBB node, but I'm having a hard time installing. I did what looked like a successful install, but no cigar. 
Perhaps a working install script would be useful to post here for those of us out there who'd like to access various equipments' RS-232 consoles. 
Thank you and 73.
KJ6QFS
Sam Skolfield


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