How to configure cgminer to mine with the CPU?

I installed the cgminer to try to get into a bitcoin mining pool, but I have no GPU. I know that mining with the CPU is not very eficient, but I want to know how to configure cgminer to mine with the CPU? Because I just want to test it. I installed the cgminer by the ubuntu software center.

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Man, the latest version have'nt support for cpuming, until version 2.11.4 adding --enable-cpumining when you call ./configure
Better use bfgminer

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:unit3/bfgminer

then:

sudo apt-get update 

Finally:

sudo apt-get install bfgminer 

and configure,

More Info at my blog (spanish)

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