Note: This is release of TNT 1.9, originally developed by Mark Wahl. This release is the work of several people. Take a look in ./doc/CHANGES for more information.

QUICK-INSTALLATION, please read carefully

To install TNT: 1) Type "./configure --help" to see the options you may be want to change (for example sound-support is defaultly compiled in). 2) Type "./configure" or "./configure --[ARGS]" to configure TNT. (For example "./configure --disable-sound" to compile TNT without sound). 3) Type "make" to build TNT. 4) Type "make install" to install TNT. 5) Good Luck ;-)

To uninstall TNT: 1) Type "make uninstall" to uninstall TNT. You don't want to do this I think ;-) If you do, all files which were installed (and only these) will be deleted.

Configure-Options: There are five options for TNT: a) sound b) ax25k c) dpboxt d) hibaud (only supported on linux-systems) e) genuser

Defaultly only sound and english is activated. To disable sound: ./configure --disable-sound To enable ax25k: ./configure --enable-ax25k (or --enable-ax25k2) To enable hibaud: ./configure --enable-hibaud To enable newuser:./configure --enable-newuser To enable dpboxt: ./configure --enable-dpboxt (Note: the dpbox-terminal is broken at the moment, so compilation with DPBOXT will fail! Note2: DPBOXT will disappear in further versions, so use an old TNT version, or wait for a new console, I will write if I have the time to do so ;-)

Language: actually TNT supports -en = english -de = Deutsch -fr = french

Enable your language with option "--with-language=xx", where xx is one of en, de, fr.

If your system does not include gettext, you should at the option "--with-included-gettext" to ./configure (mostly older or non-GNU systems).

AX25-kernel support: If you want to use TNT with ax25-kernel support, the only thing to do, is configuring TNT with ax25k enabled. Please Note: you MUST have the axutils installed. TNT needs the ax25lib (libax25.a) and the include-files (there should exists in /usr/include/ax25 for example). TNT searches for an include-dir named "ax25". If you compiled axutils, there must be a library "libax25.a". copy this file to /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib and run "ldconfig", so TNT can find this lib.

With newer AX25-libs, you should use "--enable-ax25k2" instead of "--enable-ax25k"

Please also read AX25-NOTES

HIBAUD: Enable this, if you using a baudrate >38400 to your TNC. (Only supported on Linux).

NEWUSER: Use this carefully. Generation of newusers it disable by default, because it is to unsecure. If you really want to use it, use this configure-option. Because of this, some things have changed in tnt.ini, so take a look at "tnt.ini" in examples-dir.

Installation is easy: "./configure", "make" and "make install". After the installation is finished the program "tnt_setup" will be called. Here you can do some important settings for your tnc, boxsocket or your callsign. If you do not want this, just leave the program.

INSTALL-LOCATIONS:

If you do not want to install in /usr/[local/]... and /var, you should call ./configure with --prefix= AND --localstatedir=

For example: if you want to put TNT completly in your homedirectory under tnt use: ./configure --prefix=~/tnt --localstatedir=~/tnt [--other-options...]

For a really flat installation you can now use the --enable-flat option while configuring. Just set $prefix and activate --flat. For example: if you want to put TNT completly into /usr/local/tnt, just use: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/tnt --enable-flat [--other-options...]

IMPORTANT: TNT can now used by more than one user. Just install TNT as normal, and than create a dir ".tnt" in your homedirectory and put ALL the Configuration- files in it (tnt.ini and the *.tnt files).

If you don't start TNT with a given directory explizit (with the -i option), TNT will search "tnt.ini" (or ".tntrc") in these places: First in your $HOME/.tnt directory, e.g. /home/you/.tnt/tnt.ini Then in the current directory. After this TNT will look in the directory you installed TNT in (Note: the path in configure.h "TNT_INSTALL_PATH" will be hardcoded into TNT). At last TNT looks in /etc/tnt.ini

The same thing is the "tntc.ini" (or ".tntrc"),

NEW IN THIS VERSION: READ CAREFULLY!

Some start-options of TNT have been changed, so it is possible that tnt won't start, because of a wrong tnt.ini. Maybe you should comment out the lines for new_user generation and the line for tnt_user_dir. Take a deep look at "tnt.ini" in example-dir, to figure out all of the changes.

documentation of TNT can be found in /doc-dir. source-code is found in /src-dir. solaris-stuff is found in /doc/solaris-dir. examples-configuration files can be found in /examples-dir.

for information about what has changed, take a look at /doc/CHANGES

Contents last checked by Boris Bruns. (WSPse, 31. Jan 2000)