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 Text documents are edited with vim "set tw=79 ai fo=atrq1w2" options.
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+Debian testing and Ubuntu 18.04 minimum survival from Git checkout, 2021-12-04:
+# apt update && apt upgrade -y
+# apt install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential automake \
+    gettext gitk autopoint bison flex ca-certificates openssh-client \
+    netbase pkg-config bash libssl-dev
+Redistributing requires additional packages:
+# apt install --no-install-recommends -y \
+    man lynx htmldoc asciidoc libcarp-always-perl lzip rsync
+
+# git clone https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail.git fetchmail.git
+# cd fetchmail.git
+# autoreconf -if
+# mkdir -p _build && cd _build
+# ../configure
+# make check -j8
+
+Alpine Linux cannot rebuild the distribution, it lacks HTMLDOC.
+To install requisites:
+# apk add autoconf automake bison flex gettext gettext-dev gettext-lang git \
+    build-base openssl3-dev openssh-client-default
+Then continue with Debian's git clone ... above.
+
+Fedora Linux as of 34 cannot rebuild the distribution, it lacks HTMLDOC.
+To install requisites: 
+# dnf install -y automake bison ca-certificates gettext-devel git pkg-config \
+    openssl-devel vim-minimal findutils gcc make flex
+then continue with the git clone... above.
+
+Arch Linux:
+# pacman -Syu --noconfirm && pacman -S --noconfirm automake gcc autoconf flex \
+    bison gettext ca-certificates pkg-config make git
+And for redistributing:
+# pacman -S --noconfirm lynx htmldoc asciidoc lzip rsync perl-carp-always \
+    perl-encode-locale
+
+OpenSUSE Linux:
+# zypper up -y
+# zypper in -y automake autoconf gcc  bison flex pkgconf-pkg-config \
+    libopenssl-devel openssh git gcc gettext-tools tar make
+And for redistributing:
+# zypper in -y asciidoc lynx htmldoc perl-Carp-Always rsync lzip \
+    perl-Encode-Locale