From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Nielsen Subject: Re: ARRL's LoTW with Debian Sarge Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:42:00 -0700 Sender: Bob Nielsen Message-ID: <20030918034200.GA1065@n7xy.net> References: <20030918031442.GA708@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030918031442.GA708@localhost> Resent-Message-ID: List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Hams , Debian Hams Cc: ham-linux@mailman.qth.net I installed the beta version in May and went through essentially the same process (see my May 16 message to debian-hams). I see that source rpms are now available, so it should be relatively easy to create a Debian package from scratch. The copyright file says "BSD-like", which may not be adequate for inclusion in Debian. Bob, N7XY On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:14:42PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hello everyone. > > For most on this list what I'm about describe is probably old hat, but > there may be some newcomers that would find this helpful in the list > archives. > > As most are probably aware, the American Radio Relay League has been > working for a few years on a way to digitally sign log submissions for > electronic application for their various awards. In the October 2003 > issue of QST (Amateur Windows? 8-) it has been announced that this > program was opened to general use as of 15 September 2003. On the > Logbook of The World web page: > > http://www.arrl.org/lotw/ > > there is a library and programs for signing and generating log data for > Linux. These programs are provided in binary form only for Red Hat 7.2 > and 8.0 releases and are RPMs. Also provided are source RPMs for the > library and the applications. These archives are not directly > installable as managed packages on my Linux distribution of choice, > Debian, so they must be converted using a utility called Alien. > > Having never needed Debian's Alien before, I decided this was as good of > a time as any to try it. I grabbed the RH 8.0 RPMs and the source RPMs, > just in case. > > I installed alien, rpm, libwxbase2.4, and libwxgtk2.4 as the web page > said the programs depended on WXWin 2.4. > > Converting the RPMs to .deb's was straightforward with alien and > installation with dpkg completed without error. I attempted to start > tqsl, but the startup failed. A quick ldd /usr/bin/tqsl revealed a > dependency on libcrypto.so.2 that was not found. Using the package > search page on the Debian site: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > I found that it was a part of the libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.6 packages, > the latter version being in the oldlibs section. > > Well, I created a symlink to libcrypto.so.0.9.7 named libcrypto.so.2: > > ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7 libcrypto.so.2 > > (actually I used Midnight Commander, but this is generic--don't forget > you'll need to be root as these files reside in /usr/lib) and tried > again. Running tqsl worked fine, but tqslcert failed with a relocation > error. > > Poking around in the README in the tqsllib archive I found where the > library is dependent on OpenSSL 0.9.6. So I redid my symlink to point > to libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and tqslcert loaded and ran. > > In tqslcert I was able to create my certificate request and am now > waiting for the authentication process. > > One quirk or bug I noticed in tqslcert is that if the Help button is > clicked and then the help window is backgrounded, the window that called > the help window is frozen and will remain so until the help window is > closed. This may be a problem in WxWin, I don't know. > > So there you have it, my micro-HOWTO on LoTW on Debian Sarge (Testing). > > 73, de Nate >> > > P.S. I keep this system updated about once per week. An older Testing > snapshot may or may not work. The same caveat may apply to Sid > (Unstable). > > -- > Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "We have awakened a > Internet | n0nb@networksplus.net | sleeping giant and > Location | Bremen, Kansas USA EM19ov | have instilled in him > Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | a terrible resolve". > http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | - Admiral Yamamoto