All the Elecraft utilities I use work fine on Wine, under Ubuntu 16.04.
Using Wine dodges the multiarch requirement, and it seems 100%
compatible with all Windoze API calls the utilities make. If you decide
to go this way, you'll have to make a symlink between /dev/tty<whatever>
to COM1 in dos_devices. If your serial port under Linux is
/dev/ttyUSB0, in a terminal type
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1
[Also, see
http://askubuntu.com/questions/685985/symbolic-link-between-usb-and-com-port].
The Linux native utilities are ported from Win32 to the Linux 32-bit API.
73,
matt W6NIA
On 7/31/2016 4:01 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2016 30 Jul 20:39 -0500, Bill wrote:
I am only interested in how well the Elecraft provided software under Linux
works? I do not use any third party stuff at all. Is it as easy and straight
forward as their Windows software?
K3 Utility, KPA Utility, etc.
Be aware that the Elecraft utilities are only available in 32 bit
versions at this time. If you use a distribution that allows
'multiarch', and Mint should being a Debian derivative, you will need
i386 architecture enabled if your base architecture is amd64. Ubuntu,
and probably Mint, have this enabled on amd64 installations. You will
probably have to manually install the i386 versions of some libraries.
It sounds like more of a hassle than it really is.
73, Nate
--
Always store beer in a dark place. - R. Heinlein
Matt Zilmer, W6NIA
[Shiraz]
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