ax25 was apparently not installed, odd that neither Dire Wolf
or xastir checked for the presence of ax25.
Anyhow ...
I installed ax25-tools, ax25-tools, ax25-xtools.
From Console "dmesg | grep ttyACM0" produces:
"[ 18.647282] cdc_acm 2-1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device"
I believe that I need to run kissattach with ttyACM0 but
am not sure from the dmesg output how to correctly do that.
Help?
Thanks!
David
Bruce,
This version of Puppy Linux draws apps from the Ubuntu
repository then automatically modifies them for Puppy.
So whatever version of xastir is posted to the Ubuntu
repositories will be usable by this "upup Raring 3992" version
of Puppy Linux.
The key question is how updates are loaded to xastir -
does a new release have to be loaded so that it overwrites the
existing files - e.g. download and install the newer version
from the ubuntu repository - or will xastir update internally
from it's own repository?
David
David,
I have been using xastir for years. While the developers have tried
to make it reasonable for the non-developer to get xastir running on
a particular distribution of linux most of them only work with one or
two amongst the nearly 100 distributions. There are 8 main variants
of Ubuntu and over 60 other forks based on ubuntu. While architecture
support has calmed down, with the advent and popularity of Raspberry
Pi it has complicated this process. With all of these distributions
someone has to deal with the packaging of an application hopefully
across all distributions and keep up with every update of the main
application and dependancies. To me it is a wonder that anything gets
done in the mostly volunteer world of Free Open Source Software.
That being said the only way to keep xastir up to date on your select
distribution is to unload the xastir package and load all of the
dependancies for xastir and then compile xastir. Once that is done
there is a script in xastir that will do the minor revision updates.
Run that script manually or incorporate that script in another and
set that as a routine cron job. Compiling xastir from cvs (or what
ever version control is currently used) is actually fairly easy.
Getting all of the right dependancies installed or compiled is the
hard part. I will be the first to admit that this can get very
frustrating but when you get it done it is quite satisfying. I will
admit it has been several years since I installed and compiled
xastir. I have generally been satisfied with what has been packaged
together for the distribution I use and know if I want it to be
current then I know what I will have to get into. I can't imagine the
patience needed to package any program for any particular
distribution.
The xastir list is a great place if you have a specific question
about a specific issue but no forum is likely to be very good about
answering an open ended question like "How do I get a newer version
of xastir packaged for my favorite distribution?"
I seem to recall your question about xastir but don't remember what
list it was on. A quick look at the xastir list saw several posts by
you over the last year but I did not see your 2.0.0 question.
If there is a package for a particular distribution then there is
probably some documentation on how to compile xastir for a particular
distribution.
I hope this helps,
Bruce, KQ4TV
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http://nt4bg.net Trustee for NT4UX Nashville Linux User Group -
Amateur Radio- Special Interest Group NLUG-AR-SIG
On Nov 22, 2013, at 8:37 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I just loaded xastir, which I have used before, though I don't
recall how to tell it to look at the USB port and to display
traffic - I have to review the manual. (I installed xastir despite
the Ubuntu repository offering only v 2.0.0 rather than the newer
version. (I have asked about the update path for xastir and
received no reply.)
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