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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Sam,<br><br> You did not say how you installed minicom. There are three variations listed in the repository -<br><br>community/minicom 2.7-1<br> A serial communication program<br>community/picocom 1.7-3<br> Minimal dumb-terminal emulation program, very much like minicom<br>community/tinyserial 20090305-2<br> Small minicom replacement for accessing serial ports on Linux inspired by FreeBSD 'tip'<br><br id="FontBreak"></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">I installed minicom fine but did not try it....</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">[root@BBB-40638 sbin]# pacman -Ss minicom</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">community/minicom 2.7-1</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"> A serial communication program</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">community/picocom 1.7-3</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"> Minimal dumb-terminal emulation program, very much like minicom</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">community/tinyserial 20090305-2</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"> Small minicom replacement for accessing serial ports on Linux inspired by FreeBSD 'tip'</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">[root@BBB-40638 sbin]# pacman -S minicom</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">resolving dependencies...</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">looking for inter-conflicts...</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Packages (1): minicom-2.7-1</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Total Download Size: 0.17 MiB</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Total Installed Size: 0.84 MiB</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">:: Retrieving packages ...</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"> minicom-2.7-1-armv7h 172.5 KiB 345K/s 00:01 [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">(1/1) checking keys in keyring [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">(1/1) checking package integrity [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">(1/1) loading package files [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">(1/1) checking for file conflicts [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">(1/1) checking available disk space [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">(1/1) installing minicom [##############################] 100%</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Optional dependencies for minicom</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"> lrzsz: for xmodem, ymodem and zmodem file transfer protocols</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">[root@BBB-40638 sbin]</font>#<br><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 00:53:43 -0700<br>From: kj6qfs@gmail.com<br>To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>Subject: [arm-allstar] installing minicom?<br><br><div dir="ltr">Hello All, <div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><div><br></div><div>Thank you and 73.</div><div><br></div><div class="ecxgmail_signature">KJ6QFS<br>Sam Skolfield</div>
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