Minicom (Snap port)

Author: Joe Testa (@therealjoetesta)

Overview

This is a snap port of the minicom program. It works well in devmode, but does not yet work in strict mode on the Raspberry Pi 2 due to a missing gadget slot for serial ports. It may or may not work on other platforms.

Build Process

1.) Begin by obtaining the sources for ncurses (note that a nightly build is used because the latest stable version does not compile under Ubuntu Core 16):

wget http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/ncurses-6.0-20170722.tgz
wget http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/current/ncurses-6.0-20170722.tgz.asc

2.) Check the signature:

gpg --recv-key F7E48EDB
gpg --verify ncurses-6.0-20170722.tgz.asc ncurses-6.0-20170722.tgz

3.) Get the minicom sources:

wget https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/file/4215/minicom-2.7.1.tar.gz

Unfortunately, the author has not provided a signature. However, you can check it against this SHA256 hash: 532f836b7a677eb0cb1dca8d70302b73729c3d30df26d58368d712e5cca041f1

4.) Apply patches. These are necessary for the code to compile and run in the special snap environment:

tar xzf ncurses-6.0-20170722.tgz
tar xzf minicom-2.7.1.tar.gz
pushd ncurses-6.0-20170722; patch -p1 < ../ncurses-6.0-20170722_snap.patch; popd
pushd minicom-2.7.1; patch -p1 < ../minicom-2.7.1_snap.patch; popd

5.) Build the snap:

snapcraft