# c-kermit を Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, zypper でインストール c-kermit のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。 ## インストール ```sh sudo av install brew:c-kermit ``` 追加のインストールコマンド: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install c-kermit ``` 証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install kermit ``` 証拠: MacPorts ports tree: comms/kermit/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#kermit ``` 証拠: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ke/kermit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install ckermit ``` 証拠: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ckermit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## パッケージ情報 - **パッケージキー:** brew:c-kermit - **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew - **バージョン:** 9.0.302 - **ソース概要:** Scriptable network and serial communication for UNIX and VMS - **ホームページ:** - **最終更新:** 2026-06-25T13:37:37+02:00 - **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## 実行可能ファイル - ckermit.ini (エイリアス) - kermit (エイリアス) - kermit-sshsub (エイリアス) ## インストール挙動 - Bottle: 利用不可 ## バージョンと鮮度 - ページ生成日: 2026-08-03 - マネージャ版: 9.0.302 ## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方 C-Kermit is the long-running C implementation of the Kermit Project's portable communications software: terminal sessions, file transfer, character-set conversion, and automation across serial lines and network protocols. It is historically important because it survived the modem-to-Internet transition while staying useful as a scriptable Unix and VMS command-line tool. ### プロジェクトの歴史 The Kermit Project dates itself to 1981, and the C-Kermit tutorial says C-Kermit was first written at Columbia University's Kermit Project in 1985. The 10.0 tutorial describes ten major releases, while the 9.0 page identifies C-Kermit 9.0.302 as an open-source release from 20 August 2011. The project moved into a new open-source era after Columbia: the C-Kermit 9.0 page says the New Open-Source Kermit Project hosted by Panix was created on 1 July 2011, and that version 9.0 used the revised 3-clause BSD license. The same page documents continuing 10.0 beta work for Unix, VMS, and Windows, including revived built-in SSH and SSL/TLS support. ### 採用の歴史 C-Kermit accumulated unusual portability because it targeted real communication environments rather than one operating system. The official 9.0 page lists Unix-like systems, VMS, QNX, Android, and many historical Unix variants, and it points to package availability across BSD and Linux distributions. The package-manager story is part of its recent history: the Kermit site notes that Debian and Ubuntu dropped C-Kermit in May 2021, that a Snap was created for Ubuntu 20.04 users, and that Debian and Ubuntu were putting a development 9.0.305 package back in their distributions by November 2021. ### 使われ方 C-Kermit is used as an interactive terminal program, file-transfer client, protocol toolbox, and automation language. The official tutorial describes serial and network connections, terminal sessions, binary and text transfer, character-set conversion, custom configuration, and a built-in scripting language. On Unix, the project presents it as an alternative or complement to classic tools such as cu, tip, minicom, uucp, ftp, telnet, ssh wrappers, expect, wget-like retrieval, and shell scripting for communications tasks. ### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性 C-Kermit matters to package historians because it is a living fossil of cross-platform communications software: a single command-line program spanning serial ports, modems, Telnet, SSH integration, FTP/HTTP clients, file transfer, and scripting. It also shows how licensing and distribution policy affect old infrastructure tools. Version 9.0's BSD license made redistribution easier, while security-library churn and distro removals show why mature network packages can still be operationally hard to keep packaged. ### タイムライン - 1981: The Kermit Project begins. - 1985: C-Kermit is first written at Columbia University's Kermit Project. - 1997: Using C-Kermit, Second Edition documents C-Kermit 6.0. - 2011-07-01: New Open-Source Kermit Project hosted by Panix is created. - 2011-08-20: C-Kermit 9.0.302 is released under the revised 3-clause BSD license. - 2021-05: Debian and Ubuntu drop C-Kermit from their distributions. - 2021-11: Debian and Ubuntu begin putting C-Kermit 9.0.305 back into their distributions. - 2025-03-22: C-Kermit 10.0 Beta.12 is announced as the next release on the official C-Kermit page. ### Related projects - Kermit Project: the umbrella project for Kermit protocol and implementations. - E-Kermit: the embedded/smaller Kermit implementation from the same project family. - Kermit 95 and C-Kermit 10 for Windows: Windows-oriented descendants in the same communications lineage. - ckermit-snap: a community Snap package referenced by the Kermit Project during the Debian/Ubuntu packaging gap. ### ソース - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## セキュリティノート broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中 - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ~/.kermrc ## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録 - MacPorts - kermit: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: comms/kermit/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Nix - kermit: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ke/kermit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper - ckermit - 9.0.302-20.4: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: ckermit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A Combined Serial and Network Communication Software Package | https://www.kermitproject.org/ ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/c-kermit.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/c-kermit.yml) ## ソース - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph