I've packaged up CKermit as a snap, for Ubuntu 20.04

1 · RvE · May 16, 2021, midnight
Last year I packaged up [gnash as a snap](/s/blog/Ive_packaged_up_Gnash_as_a_Snap_for_modern_linux.html) because it was missing from the Ubuntu 20.04 apt repositories. Recently I found out that `ckermit` is also not in Ubuntu 20.04, as far as I can tell because it wasn't in the Debian repositories when the Ubuntu 20.04 initial sync happened. Which is very inconvenient for an LTS release. I often use `ckermit` to connect to our hardware via a script, to automatically boot from NFS (via u-boot). I...