help need with APRS on ultrasun

help need with APRS on ultrasun

[Mark Acierno]

Hi all I relatively new to Linux - so I apologize ahead of time if this 
is a dumb question

I wanted to get an APRS system up and running on my sun Ultra 2 creator 
running debian. This is to replace the weather station that was running 
on my tired old mac.

I downloaded the Xastir package and got it all onto my sun. ...... only 
there is no installation guide. the instructions pick up after a 
successful installation. i've unpackaged the software but what to I do 
now???  there is no executable image called Xastir. Also, before I get 
any further into this is this the best game in town (or will it even 
work on my hardware?)

thanx so much for your patients and help

mark

Re: help need with APRS on ultrasun

[Arno Verhoeven]

Mark Acierno wrote:

> Hi all I relatively new to Linux - so I apologize ahead of time if 
> this is a dumb question
>
> I wanted to get an APRS system up and running on my sun Ultra 2 
> creator running debian. This is to replace the weather station that 
> was running on my tired old mac.
>
> I downloaded the Xastir package and got it all onto my sun. ...... 
> only there is no installation guide. the instructions pick up after a 
> successful installation. i've unpackaged the software but what to I do 
> now???  there is no executable image called Xastir. Also, before I get 
> any further into this is this the best game in town (or will it even 
> work on my hardware?) 


Don't know if it will work on your Sun HW, but try this...

http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/README.Getting-Started


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Re: help need with APRS on ultrasun

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:45:51AM -0400, Mark Acierno wrote:
> I downloaded the Xastir package and got it all onto my sun. ...... only 
> there is no installation guide. the instructions pick up after a 
> successful installation. i've unpackaged the software but what to I do 
> now???  there is no executable image called Xastir. Also, before I get 
> any further into this is this the best game in town (or will it even 
> work on my hardware?)

No, but there should be a binary called "xastir" (no capital).
If not, there's a bug in the package.

Hamish (debian xastir package maintainer)
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

Re: help need with APRS on ultrasun

[Mark Acierno]

Ah - that is what I was looking for!

apparently I am missing the x11 development libraries - so I will work 
on that first

thanx for the help and I will keep you up-to-date on my progress (... 
and i'm sure I will have more simple questions)


mark


On Aug 20, 2004, at 1:48 AM, Arno Verhoeven wrote:

> Mark Acierno wrote:
>
>> Hi all I relatively new to Linux - so I apologize ahead of time if 
>> this is a dumb question
>>
>> I wanted to get an APRS system up and running on my sun Ultra 2 
>> creator running debian. This is to replace the weather station that 
>> was running on my tired old mac.
>>
>> I downloaded the Xastir package and got it all onto my sun. ...... 
>> only there is no installation guide. the instructions pick up after a 
>> successful installation. i've unpackaged the software but what to I 
>> do now???  there is no executable image called Xastir. Also, before I 
>> get any further into this is this the best game in town (or will it 
>> even work on my hardware?)
>
>
> Don't know if it will work on your Sun HW, but try this...
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/README.Getting-Started
>
>
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> 73, PE1ICQ  Arno Verhoeven --------------------------------
> AX.25  pe1icq@pi8zaa.#nbo.nld.eu
> smtp   pe1icq@pi8zaa.ampr.org
> inet   pe1icq@amsat.org
>

Re: help need with APRS on ultrasun

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Arno Verhoeven wrote:

> Mark Acierno wrote:
>
> > Hi all I relatively new to Linux - so I apologize ahead of time if
> > this is a dumb question
> >
> > I wanted to get an APRS system up and running on my sun Ultra 2
> > creator running debian. This is to replace the weather station that
> > was running on my tired old mac.
> >
> > I downloaded the Xastir package and got it all onto my sun. ......
> > only there is no installation guide. the instructions pick up after a
> > successful installation. i've unpackaged the software but what to I do
> > now???  there is no executable image called Xastir. Also, before I get
> > any further into this is this the best game in town (or will it even
> > work on my hardware?)
>
>
> Don't know if it will work on your Sun HW, but try this...
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/README.Getting-Started

That document is now part of the Xastir sources, as of yesterday,
but there's a hardware problem with the anonymous CVS servers for
some of the SourceForge projects, including the one that serves up
Xastir.  Supposed to be fixed by today, but we'll see.

There are other documents in the distribution that should help.
INSTALL is probably the other file you should look at.

Subscribe to the "Xastir" mailing list and ask questions there.
Lot's of people hang out there that can help with questions like
these.

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