# Minicom version in Rocky 9 - can we go from 2.7 to the current version (2.8 or above?)

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No, that’s basically due to the fact they are Fedora source rpms and they don’t always work when building against Rocky 9 or whatever. If you take into account that the equivalent Fedora version for RHEL9 is Fedora 34, then it’s not really surprising. Sometimes you can be lucky, sometimes not.

For example:

> [@Install recent HPLIP with GUI on Rocky Linux 8.x and 9.x](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/install-recent-hplip-with-gui-on-rocky-linux-8-x-and-9-x/19102/2):
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> Hi Niki, According to [https://pkgs.org](https://pkgs.org) there doesn’t seem to be a third-party repo that we know of. However, this won’t be a huge problem, since we can grab the Fedora source rpm here: [https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/hplip/3.25.2/5.fc41/src/hplip-3.25.2-5.fc41.src.rpm](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/hplip/3.25.2/5.fc41/src/hplip-3.25.2-5.fc41.src.rpm) we can build it ourselves. I’ve grabbed the Fedora 41 source rpm, because we are more likely to have success with this package under Rocky 8, than if we attempt the Fedora 42 one. Note that the version for Fedora 4…

or:

> [@How do I install this on Rocky Linux 8?](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-do-i-install-this-on-rocky-linux-8/18214/13):
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> OK, so first install mock - in this example my username is ian so you will need to change that for yours: dnf install mock gpasswd -a ian mock you will now need to logout and log back in again for that to be active. Now we can start building audacity from the source rpm. First download the Audacity 3.5.1 source rpm from one of the two links: Main page with links: [audacity-3.5.1-4.fc41 | Build Info | koji](https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2559283) Direct download for source rpm: [https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/audacity/…](https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/audacity/3.5.1/4.fc41/src/audacity-3.5.1-4.fc41.src.rpm)

both show it was possible to build a Fedora 41 on Rocky 8 or 9. If it relies on something more specific in terms of versions, then if that newer package doesn’t get installed as a dependency from EPEL or wherever because it doesn’t exist, then we are out of luck.

Someone could potentially edit, fix and repackage the source rpm and make it work with an older version of autoconf but that would require far more advanced knowledge. Either that or download the minicom source, and just configure, make, make install etc assuming also that it doesn’t have strict dependency requirements.

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