Installing Netkit-base-0.17

Estimated build time:           0.03 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  1 MB

Contents of Netkit-base

Last checked against version 0.17.

The Netkit-base package contains two network-related tools: ping, which determines the response time of ICMP packets, and the inet daemon, which listens for port requests and assigns these requests to the appropriate programs.

Netkit-base installs the following:

Program Files

inetd and ping

Netkit-base Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 0.17.

Bash: sh
Binutils: as, ld, strip
Fileutils: cp, install, rm
Make: make
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: date
Textutils: cat

Installation of Netkit-base

Prepare Netkit-base to be compiled:

./configure

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Finally, two essential config files need to be installed in the /etc directory. There are other files in the etc.sample directory which might be of interest to you.

Complete the installation of this package:

cp etc.sample/{services,protocols} /etc