Re: Linpac on Raspberry Pi

[Ray Wells <vk2tv@exemail.com.au>]

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 <grin>
>
> 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