Installing Inetutils-1.4.2

Estimated build time:           0.2 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  11 MB

Contents of Inetutils

The Inetutils package contains network clients and servers.

Installed programs: ftp, ping, rcp, rlogin, rsh, talk, telnet and tftp

Inetutils Installation Dependencies

Inetutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.

Installation of Inetutils

Prepare Inetutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-syslogd \
    --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --disable-logger \
    --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
    --disable-whois --disable-servers

The meaning of the configure options:

Compile the package:

make

Install it:

make install

And move the ping program to its proper place:

mv /usr/bin/ping /bin