[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 57, Issue 13
Bob Hardin
bobh at iserv.net
Fri Aug 6 12:37:01 EDT 2010
For what it is worth.
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu straight from the web site then ran the
script fresh from the Xastir Ubuntu wiki and all worked perfectly. I've
been away from *nix for a while and was impressed with the quality of both
groups work at Ubuntu and you people at Xastir thanks for the effort!
Bob KD8LZT
Allegan County Volunteer Search and Rescue
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> 1. Re: Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu (Jerry Dunmire)
> 2. Re: Is there any one version of Linux better than another for
> xastir ? (Curt, WE7U)
> 3. Re: Is there any one version of Linux better than another for
> xastir ? (Tom, ve7did)
> 4. Re: Is there any one version of Linux better than another for
> xastir ? (Lee Bengston)
> 5. Re: Is there any one version of Linux better than another for
> xastir ? (Neville A. Cross)
> 6. Re: Is there any one version of Linux better than another for
> xastir ? (Ray Wells)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:03:47 -0700
> From: Jerry Dunmire <jerry at dunmire.org>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Installing Xastir 1.9.9 on Ubuntu
> Message-ID:
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> Something to watch out for on Ubuntu. During the 7.x series they
> changed the default shell from bash to dash. dash is not bash and
> scripts that require bash functionality and do not specify
> '#!/bin/bash' at the top of the script will fail in wild and wonderful
> ways.
>
> Personally, the first thing I do after a new Ubuntu install is run:
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
> and tell it to NOT install dash as /bin/sh. Of course this is contrary
> to Ubuntu recommendations.
>
> 73,
> ...jerry
> KA6HDL
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, John Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> Today, I made the attempt to load on Lubuntu 10.04 and received a
> failure
> >> at the point where you install Xastir. After typing ../configure, I
> received
> >> "bash: ?../configure: No such file or directory."
> >>
> >> With Lubuntu being a "light" version, is it possible that some
> necessary
> >> files are not available to work at the same level as Ubuntu?
> >
> > Yes. ?Particularly if you are installing Xastir from CVS instead of
> > a tarball.
> >
> > Make sure you've loaded the autotools stuff: ?autoconf and automake,
> > and that you've run "./bootstrap.sh" in the Xastir directory
> > successfully. ?That builds the "configure" script and the
> > "Makefile.in" files.
> >
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>
> > ? APRS: ?Where it's at! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?<http://www.xastir.org>
> > ?Lotto: ?A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
> > Windows: ?Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
> > The world DOES revolve around me: ?I picked the coordinate system!"
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> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:12:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Is there any one version of Linux better than
> another for xastir ?
> Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1008051304580.30844 at wapiti.we7u.net>
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>
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:
>
> > I am running ham apps on on both a Dell desktop and a D600 laptop.
>
> I should have mentioned that I'm running kernel ax.25, ham apps like
> WSPR and Fldigi via a USB SignalLink, and just configured Soundmodem
> again 'cuz I want to play with q15x25 mode a bit.
>
> My TNC won't come out of KISS mode. Ever. It's a TNC-X.
>
>
> > My biggest problem these days is the sound interface, alsa, pulse,
> > jack, and the others that seem to come up. I'm pretty happy with the
> > default Ubuntu choice in 10.04 (pulse), particularly after I
> installed
> > some of the pulse tools.
>
> I'm still trying to figure out the sound system. Sometimes I bring
> up a mixer and it loads pulseaudio, but otherwise I'm not running
> it. WSPR seems to work with the OSS or ALSA devices, but I've heard
> OSS is old now (I remember when it was the brand-new thing!) so I'm
> using the ALSA names I think. Then there PortAudio (I guess I'm
> using that in Fldigi?) and PulseAudio and Jack.
>
> What I'd like is things to stop messing with my mixer volume for my
> 2nd soundcard (USB SignaLink), and for everything to be able to play
> together using one audio system. Does such a creature exist yet?
> It doesn't appear that I can bring up WSPR and Fldigi on the same
> soundcard at the same time (so I can select CW filter and the proper
> IF shift for the 1500 Hz area WSPR wants), plus WSPR has far fewer
> selections for sound drivers than Fldigi has.
>
> Any Linux sound system experts out there?
>
>
> > One other note, a friend in the neighborhood has a preference for
> > Centos, but he has been having a bear of a time getting the ham apps
> > to work.
>
> I run CentOS on my servers at work. In my estimation that's where
> it is most comfortable. It's not designed to be a bleeding edge
> distro but a very reliable server-oriented distro. They maintain
> support for each version for seven years, just like Red Hat with
> their RHEL (which CentOS is derived from and nearly and exact copy
> of). I agree, don't consider CentOS for your main desktop.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>
> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org>
> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
> Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
> The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:54:41 -0700
> From: "Tom, ve7did" <ve7did at dccnet.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Is there any one version of Linux better than
> another for xastir ?
> Message-ID: <4C5B2511.20701 at dccnet.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> I am running Slackware 12.1 right now. Have been using Slackware for
> many years and it "just" works. I keep up to date with Xastir CVS and
> again it just works. Using ax.25. Also using it to run the Linux
> Winlink RMS node and again. It just works. Can't remember the last
> time I had problems. (Now I just jinxed myself...).
>
> Propagation Knows No Boundaries
> 73 de Tom, ve7did
>
>
>
> Curt, WE7U wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:
> >
> >> I am running ham apps on on both a Dell desktop and a D600 laptop.
> >
> > I should have mentioned that I'm running kernel ax.25, ham apps like
> > WSPR and Fldigi via a USB SignalLink, and just configured Soundmodem
> > again 'cuz I want to play with q15x25 mode a bit.
> >
> > My TNC won't come out of KISS mode. Ever. It's a TNC-X.
> >
> >
> >> My biggest problem these days is the sound interface, alsa, pulse,
> >> jack, and the others that seem to come up. I'm pretty happy with the
> >> default Ubuntu choice in 10.04 (pulse), particularly after I
> installed
> >> some of the pulse tools.
> >
> > I'm still trying to figure out the sound system. Sometimes I bring
> > up a mixer and it loads pulseaudio, but otherwise I'm not running
> > it. WSPR seems to work with the OSS or ALSA devices, but I've heard
> > OSS is old now (I remember when it was the brand-new thing!) so I'm
> > using the ALSA names I think. Then there PortAudio (I guess I'm
> > using that in Fldigi?) and PulseAudio and Jack.
> >
> > What I'd like is things to stop messing with my mixer volume for my
> > 2nd soundcard (USB SignaLink), and for everything to be able to play
> > together using one audio system. Does such a creature exist yet?
> > It doesn't appear that I can bring up WSPR and Fldigi on the same
> > soundcard at the same time (so I can select CW filter and the proper
> > IF shift for the 1500 Hz area WSPR wants), plus WSPR has far fewer
> > selections for sound drivers than Fldigi has.
> >
> > Any Linux sound system experts out there?
> >
> >
> >> One other note, a friend in the neighborhood has a preference for
> >> Centos, but he has been having a bear of a time getting the ham apps
> >> to work.
> >
> > I run CentOS on my servers at work. In my estimation that's where
> > it is most comfortable. It's not designed to be a bleeding edge
> > distro but a very reliable server-oriented distro. They maintain
> > support for each version for seven years, just like Red Hat with
> > their RHEL (which CentOS is derived from and nearly and exact copy
> > of). I agree, don't consider CentOS for your main desktop.
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:11:55 +0200
> From: Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Is there any one version of Linux better than
> another for xastir ?
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTimWFAZet8oJNYZdkm0QnpH+X1hk20EKGoB0DMUN at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Tom, ve7did <ve7did at dccnet.com> wrote:
> > I am running Slackware 12.1 right now. ?Have been using Slackware for
> many
> > years and it "just" works. I keep up to date with Xastir CVS and
> again it
> > just works. ?Using ax.25. ? Also using it to run the Linux Winlink
> RMS node
> > and again. ?It just works. ?Can't remember the last time I had
> problems.
> > (Now I just jinxed myself...).
> >
> > Propagation Knows No Boundaries
> > 73 de Tom, ?ve7did
>
> I installed Xastir a few years ago on the Slackware based Vector
> Linux, and it was fine. One thing about Slackware, however, is that
> it is harder to find binary versions of some of Xastir's dependencies,
> so depending on which dependencies the user needs, it could take
> considerably longer to get everything set up prior to compiling Xastir
> itself.
>
> Recently I haven't had any trouble installing Xastir from CVS in
> Ubuntu 10.04, PCLinuxOS 2010, Sidux 2010-01, Mandriva 2010.1 or Mepis
> 8.5. I have to admit I haven't tried getting ax25 working in any of
> them, so there may be differences there. My personal preferences are
> the non-Ubuntu Debian based distros (Mepis and Sidux), but there's
> nothing scientific about that.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Murphy, TX
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:25:16 -0600
> From: "Neville A. Cross" <nacross at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Is there any one version of Linux better than
> another for xastir ?
> Message-ID:
> <AANLkTi=SZj4osnKBMSS-es4KfVZRCDS---XD2vXCyyrm at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I installed Xastir a few years ago on the Slackware based Vector
> > Linux, and it was fine. ?One thing about Slackware, however, is that
> > it is harder to find binary versions of some of Xastir's
> dependencies,
> > so depending on which dependencies the user needs, it could take
> > considerably longer to get everything set up prior to compiling
> Xastir
> > itself.
> >
> > Recently I haven't had any trouble installing Xastir from CVS in
> > Ubuntu 10.04, PCLinuxOS 2010, Sidux 2010-01, Mandriva 2010.1 or Mepis
> > 8.5. ?I have to admit I haven't tried getting ax25 working in any of
> > them, so there may be differences there. ?My personal preferences are
> > the non-Ubuntu Debian based distros (Mepis and Sidux), but there's
> > nothing scientific about that.
> >
>
>
> I have installed Xastir with a TNC using KISS on Ubuntu and Fedora.
> When I first tried Fedora9 there was a separate repo for ax.25 files,
> but from Fedora10 you can find them on the main repository.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Neville
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
> Linux User # 473217
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:55:31 +1000
> From: Ray Wells <vk2tv at exemail.com.au>
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Is there any one version of Linux better than
> another for xastir ?
> Message-ID: <4C5B87B3.6030607 at exemail.com.au>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I've installed xastir on both Ubuntu and Mint without any problems.
>
> If you explain your issues we might be better placed to assist.
> "issues"
> has very wide scope.
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
> On 06/08/10 01:41, ml41782 wrote:
> > I have had issues in the past loading up xastir to linux mint. I have
> had issues
> > now with ubuntu 10 loading up xastirs and now ax25 issues with mkiss
> and the
> > kpc9612. I went to the linux ax25 group and downloaded the latest
> ax25 tools and
> > library that didn't help either.
> >
> > I ready to dump and start over again.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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