Just for the record... It would have been a show stopper for me if the K3 software was only Windows... Now that I have had a chance to play with the rig a bit more, I still might have bought it, but I really do thank Elecraft for supporting Debian and the other forms of Linux. -- Thanks and 73's, For equipment, and software setups and reviews see: www.nk7z.net for MixW support see; http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info for Dopplergram information see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info for MM-SSTV see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 18:06 -0400, David Sanders W4DES wrote: > This is in fact a deficiency in Debian. Most of the required libs can be > installed in a multi-arch configuration where the 32-bit libraries go into a > separate directory from the 64-bit libraries. However the gtkhtml package > among others does not yet conform to this standard. The 32-bit libraries > therefore cannot coexist on the same system as the 64-bit libraries. On > Fedora this problem is not there and you can install compat-gtkhtml314.i686 > and the Elecraft utilities will display their help. > > There are two possible solutions on Debian systems. The Debian project can > fix their libraries or Elecraft can make available a version of their > utilities compiled for 64 bits. It may take a long time for debian to > correct their libraries so I would suggest Elecraft take the time to compile > their utilities for 64 bits as an alternate download. > > 73, David W4DES > > > > > On May 1, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Pierfrancesco Caci <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > as a matter of fact, all linux software available on Elecraft website > > works perfectly well on Debian Wheezy at 64 bits EXCEPT the built-in > > help for said software, which requires a library which is not > > available. Not a big deal, since the help system is just html and you > > can just point your browser to the directory and read it. > > But, in 2014, it would be nice if said software were compiled natively > > for 64 bits. > > That said, I'm happy that at least one vendor acknowledges the existance > > of linux users. I tend not to buy stuff that tells me which OS I should > > have to use it. > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
