Hi Bill and David, Could I find a source tarball which builds on Ubuntu 20.04? I have several wsprdaemon sites which want to move to 20.02.
My attempt to follow David's instructions have failed and I have so much other SW to work on that I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Thanks, Rob On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 4:55 AM Bill Somerville <g4...@classdesign.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > I am not ruling out portable packaging, I just don't think it should be > the prime focus of a small and busy development team. If someone makes a > portable package, commit to keep it up to date, and it gets some traction > amongst Linux users of WSJT-X; then that's fine. > > I assume you realize that the WSJT-X CMake build script already knows how > to make a basic Debian or RPM package, the package target does that if run > on a suitable machine. You would be better to use a git checkout rather > than the combined WSJT-X sources tarball with bundled Hamlib. That would > mean separately installing Hamlib, which is not hard and the WSJT-X repo > INSTALL file (different from the one in the combined sources tarball) has a > recipe. Making a package is no more than invoking `make package` or `cmake > --build --target package`. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > On 03/08/2020 08:48, David Spoelstra wrote: > > Bill- > > Just got a new wsjt digest where you answered a question about Flatpak. > From your answer, that doesn't seem to be the correct direction. > > Since I like to be on the latest distro of Ubuntu, maybe I should learn to > make a deb and give you guys that to post? > > Basically I'm looking for some pointers on how to best help the project. > > 73, > -David, N9KT > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 4:38 PM David Spoelstra <dav...@mediamachine.com> > wrote: > >> Bill- >> >> I just built 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 20.04 and noticed a few things that should >> be fixed in the INSTALL file in the 2.2.2 tarball. Some of them are >> cosmetic. Some are actual errors if you follow the steps (line 131). Just >> my way to try and help the project! >> >> Line 13: >> Copyright 2001 - 2018 by Joe Taylor, K1JT. >> should be: >> Copyright 2001 - 2020 by Joe Taylor, K1JT. >> >> Line 34 (Debian name): >> Also qtmultimedia5-dev, libqt5libserialport5-dev, qttools5-dev, >> should be: >> Also qtmultimedia5-dev, libqt5serialport5-dev, qttools5-dev, >> >> Line 35 (Debian name): >> libusb-1.0.0-dev >> should be: >> libusb-1.0-0-dev >> >> Line 71: >> repository e.g. wsjtx-1.9.1 by specifying it as a variable to >> should be: >> repository e.g. wsjtx-2.2.2 by specifying it as a variable to >> >> Line 74: >> $ cmake -D WSJTX_TAG=wsjtx-2.0.0 <source-dir-path> >> should be: >> $ cmake -D WSJTX_TAG=wsjtx-2.2.2 <source-dir-path> >> >> Line 111: >> $ cmake -D WSJTX_TAG=wsjtx-2.0.0 <source-dir-path> >> should be: >> $ cmake -D WSJTX_TAG=wsjtx-2.2.2 <source-dir-path> >> >> Line 122: >> The above commands, if successful, will produce 'wsjtx-1.9.1.tgz' >> should be: >> The above commands, if successful, will produce 'wsjtx-2.2.2.tgz' >> >> Line 128: >> $ tar xzf wsjtx-2.0.0.tgz >> should be: >> $ tar xzf wsjtx-2.2.2.tgz >> >> Line 131: >> $ cmake -DWSJT_SKIP_MANPAGES=ON -DWSJT_GENERATE_DOCS=OFF >> ../wsjtx-2.0.0 >> should be: >> $ cmake -DWSJT_SKIP_MANPAGES=ON -DWSJT_GENERATE_DOCS=OFF .. >> > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > -- Rob Robinett AI6VN r...@robinett.us mobile: +1 650 218 8896
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