Hello, All,
Ubuntu installed painlessly except as noted below. I downloaded a Ubuntu
iso and made a CD. After booting from that I just clicked on 'install'
and it installed it on my hard drive.
Linrad works fine with Ubuntu [and did so right from the start].
There werea few interesting facets of Ubuntu installation:
1. It will not let root sign in to the gnome login screen until you
change the default parameters to permit this.
2. It does not automatically activate the root user. This must be done
manually.
3. If you do sign on as root by going thru a terminal mode signon and
then create a new user, you won't be able to enter the gui [Gnome] as that
user because the home directory was not created by that user, but by root
and this breaks the rules.
So if you don't set up a second user on the initial install, because you
are planning to just use root, you will be unhappy.
Also, Ubuntu does not come with 'make' installed!!! You need to install it
via apt-get or synaptic. You will want to broaden the repositories for
these, too. There is a nice 'unofficial Ubuntu guide' that has lots of
good information.
Also, Ubuntu does not come with gcc installed. Again, you need to get it
with apt-get or synaptic.
As usual with svgalib, the svgalib_helper error crops up. I get around
this by setting [uncommenting] NO_HELPER in the /etc/vga/libvga.config
file.
'mdev /dev/psaux' is needed in that file too.
Linrad ran on the first try with the stock sound. NO issues at all. As
usual, the issues noted above are not LINRAD issues, but LINUX issues.
Fortunately, these are pretty minimal with Ubuntu, being primarily limited
to my stupidity in figuring I was just going to be root user [Had I RTFM,
this 'issue' was well detailed there and depicted as a major plus, from a
security point of view].
PS...in his install notes, Leif had as a step: 'wajig recommended
xlibs-static-dev' for X11 compilation. This file is now deprecated.
Rather than try without it [which would likely have been the smart thing
to do], I just wajig'd all of the files that wajig listed as being newer
substitutes, and xlinrad compiled and ran fine the first time after I did
this. But I didn't try to compile without downloading these files, which
would have been smart and would have saved about 5 minutes.
Linrad.exe also compiled right off the bat.
All in all, a pretty painless install!
73,
Roger
W3SZ
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:07:39 -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, All,
I am converting my last remaining RedHat Computer to another distro, as
I need to install some 'new' files so I can play with dttsp on that
computer, and its too much of a pain to get these files installed and
set up in a very old [pre-Fedora] version of Red Hat Linux due to tye
usual Linux dependency issues. I HAVE gotten dttsp etc to compile/run
on another machine running Debian testing, but know that I lack most of
the pre-requisites on my RHL computer for the needed files.
SO I have decided to try the new flavor of Debian, Ubuntu. I see that
IS0KYB got Linrad working with this, using ALSA. I would probably be
using ALSA to start, but then switching to OSS.
I have some questions for the group, understanding that since I can get
Debian installed and running Linrad in my sleep I should have no problem
with this, but also understanding that 'should' and 'logic' both often
seem foreign to the free software Linux universe:
1. Has anyone experienced any significant 'issues' installing Ubuntu
and running Linrad?
2. Has anyone other than Marco IS0KYB actually done this?
Thanks,
Roger Rehr
W3SZ
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