This article is from the SSH - Secure Shell FAQ, by Thomas Koenig Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de with numerous contributions by others.
Get the file from a site near you, then unpack it with
gzip -c -d ssh-1.2.20.tar.gz | tar xvf -
then change into the directory ssh-1.2.20, read the file INSTALL, and
follow the directions in it.
 
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