From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Wells Subject: Re: Linpac on Raspberry Pi Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:53:10 +1100 Message-ID: <52FEAC66.1060102@exemail.com.au> References: <52FDC2F9.2050804@exemail.com.au> <52FE4D95.2020701@trinnet.net> <52FE8EE2.90501@exemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52FE8EE2.90501@exemail.com.au> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Ranch , Linux Hams David, A correction on what I previously wrote about meeting dependencies. ncurses-libs is not in the Debian repositories. In Debian I use libncurses5-dev to meet dependencies when compiling kernel ax25 and I've not yet had any curses header errors with Linpac. I'm guessing libncurses5-dev provides the headers provided by ncurse-libs in RPM based systems. Right/wrong??? Ray vk2tv On 15/02/14 08:47, Ray Wells wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks for the reply and the information. This is great news. > > #0 I didn't realise that ax25mail-utils was a dependency because the > documentation talks about getting mail as being optional. I've met the > other requirements. > #1 On this particular occasion I'm not concerned about the SD card > wearing out but I take your point. It's convenient at the moment to > wear out the card. > #2 I also have concentrated on the curses version. An attempt with the > Java version quite some years back failed and I walked away from it. > Besides, the curses version fits well with headless operation of the RPi. > > I'll get and apply the patches and see what happens next. Another > member of the RPi list, Tom SP2LOB is also running with this project. > > I'm not a programmer or a developer but my twenty years of Debian has > taught me what some of the compile errors mean, even if I can't > resolve them > > Thanks, David. > > Ray vk2tv > > On 15/02/14 04:08, David Ranch wrote: >> >> Hello Ray, >> >> I'm actively working on (finally) releasing a new version of Linpac >> but Autoconf has been a challenge. I received some great help from >> the Xastir folks but have a little more to go. Anyway, I have your >> "vector" and other issues have already been solved with these new >> patches and I should be able to give you a hand. I do plan on >> releasing a .debs in the future but until then, try this for non-RPM >> based systems: >> >> >> # 0 - Your dependencies will be gcc, perl, ncurses-libs, libax25, and >> ax25mail-utils >> # All compiling details can be found here: >> http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/hampacketizing-centos.html#11.linpac