Linux serial port debugging tool xgcom installation

minicom is very easy to use, but sometimes not intuitive enough, it is recommended that newcomers, especially those who are used to windows hyper-terminal users to use xgcom.

The installation method is as follows:

My system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

1. Download the xgcom source code from http://code.google.com/p/xgcom/. The latest version is xgcom-0.04.2.tgz.

Unzip to /usr/local/src under tar xvzf xgcom-0.04.2.tgz /usr/local/src

2. Before installing xgcom, you need to install several required libraries make , automake, libglib2.0-dev, libvte-dev, libgtk2.0-dev. Some systems may already have some.

sudo apt-get install automake

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

sudo apt-get install libvte-dev

sudo apt -get install libgtk2.0-dev

3. Ready to start compiling xgcom

Go to the unzipped source directory, cd /usr/local/src/xgcom-0.04.2- Src

README configuration, compile

./autogen.sh make sudo make install

Then xgcom run

can see xgcom, install Go to /usr/local/bin