[Xastir] NOOOBIE with Questions

[kb8uih at charter.net]

Neville and others,
Thanks very much.  I am using Fedora 14.  A local ham helped greatly as 
well getting me going.  I didn't understand to make sure I had entered 
root password to enable me to be in correct mode to enter the yum 
comand.  XASTIR is now running.  I have to figure out how to make the 
computer stop the timeout it has making me reenter my password to get 
back in to it periodically.  I may have to use another computer 
altogether that has more guts(Processor and RAM).

73,
Chris
KB8UIH

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
Adam Savage
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Neville A. Cross wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:47 -0500, kb8uih at charter.net wrote:
>> Thank you for the insites(sights?).  I needed a clue to open the 
>> terminal window to see these commands.
>>
>
>
> I am a average fedora user and a poor xastir user.
> I am using gnome... so Terminal can be found in the top bar 
> Applications
> -> System Tools -> Terminal
>
> If you find yourself having problema with the terminal I will sugest 
> to
> use packagekit... so in the top bar system-> Administration ->
> add/remove software
>
> When the aplications open you will see in the top left corner a serach
> box. Write xastir and hit enter. I will take some time, as usuarlly
> confirm the repositories. If you have just started your machine, it 
> will
> take longer as probably in the background is checking for upgrades.
> Anyway it will show in the right box xastir, with a check style 
> square.
> Click on the square to check for installation a click Apply. It wil 
> ask
> for some dependencies and the for you administrative password.
>
> After it has been installed ... it will be located in Applications->
> Internet-> Xastir and has a icon that looks like a shadow of a 4x4 
> with
> an antenna.
>
> On first run will ask for configure your station. Nad then you should 
> go
> and configure interfases.
>
> One thing that I have find confusing abou different linux flavors is
> sudo vs. su... sudo is more like debian/ubuntu and in fedora you have 
> to
> configure your regular user among the sudo user. So probably will work
> better the following sentence:
>
> su -c "yum install xastir"
>
> The other way for fedora is to issue a:
> su
> (then type root/administrator your password)
>
> and the your prompt will say somenthing like [root at localhost user]#
> then you can act free as administrator and issue
>
> yum install xastir
>
>
> One thing in my fedora experience is tha installing xastir like this
> hates when you mistype your serial port and froze.
>
> Windows to unix serialport translation will be something like
> com1 usually is /dev/ttyS0
> com2 usually is /dev/ttyS1
>
> and if you have a usb seral port adaptor will be /dev/ttyUSB0
>
> Hope this lines help you.
>
> Keep asking if you need more help
>
>
> -- 
> Neville
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v
> Linux User # 473217
>
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