\n}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to: - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using kermit with these commands:

 Where to find more information:

Darwin Ports


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Kermit version 8.0.211 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Thursday the 9th of September, 2010

    version 8.0.211

      View the most recent changes for the kermit port at: kermit.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for kermit.
      The raw portfile for kermit 8.0.211 is located here:
      http://kermit.darwinports.com/dports/comms/kermit/Portfile
      Find related portfiles with the unique DarwinPorts.com search feature.
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      The kermit Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0
      Name: kermit
      Version: 8.0.211
      Category: comms
      Maintainers: nomaintainer
      distname cku[lindex [split ${version} .] end]
      Platform: darwin freebsd
      Master Sites: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/archives/ ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/kermit/archives/
      Checksums: md5 5767ec5e6ff0857cbfe2d3ec1ee0e2bc sha1 cd5e0524d27fea0275a0938da2a5fc115e0978b8
      Homepage: http://www.kermit-project.org/
      Description: Serial and network communications package.
      Long Description: C-Kermit is a combined serial and network communication software package offering a consistent, medium-independent, cross-platform approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file transfer, character-set translation, numeric and alphanumeric paging, and automation of communication tasks.

      extract.mkdir yes
      build.target
      Patch Files: patch-makefile patch-ckuus5.c

      platform darwin {
      build.target macosx103
      }

      platform freebsd {
      set major [ string index ${os.version} 0 ]
      set minor [ string index ${os.version} 2 ]
      build.target freebsd${major}${minor}
      }

      configure {
      reinplace "s| prefix |${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/ckuus5.c ${worksrcpath}/makefile
      reinplace "s|CC= cc|CC= ${configure.cc}|g" ${worksrcpath}/makefile
      reinplace "s|CC2= cc|CC2= ${configure.cc}|g" ${worksrcpath}/makefile
      }

      pre-destroot {
      file mkdir ${destroot}${prefix}/bin
      file mkdir ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/kermit
      }

      livecheck.type regexm
      livecheck.url http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html
      livecheck.regex {
    		Version:([0-9\.]+)