Installing Inetutils-1.4.2

The Inetutils package contains programs for basic networking.

Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
Required disk space:     11 MB

Official download location for Inetutils (1.4.2):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/
And for the Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/inetutils-1.4.2-no_server_man_pages-1.patch

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

Installation of Inetutils

We are not going to install all the programs that come with Inetutils. However, the Inetutils build system will insist on installing all the man pages anyway. The following patch will correct this situation:

patch -Np1 -i ../inetutils-1.4.2-no_server_man_pages-1.patch

Now prepare Inetutils for compilation:

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

Contents of Inetutils

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

Short descriptions

ftp is the ARPANET file transfer program.

ping sends echo-request packets and reports how long the replies take.

rcp does remote file copy.

rlogin does remote login.

rsh runs a remote shell.

talk is used to chat up another user.

telnet is an interface to the TELNET protocol.

tftp is a trivial file transfer program.