FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 10, 2021 0:06 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: FOSS for amateur radio

Much of the software discussed is available in Debian's ham radio blend for easy installation:

https://www.debian.org/blends/hamradio/
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHams

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 10, 2021 5:27 UTC (Fri) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link] (9 responses)

That looks interesting! I run Arch on my laptop, but I might try that in a VM.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 10, 2021 6:42 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

Note that the live images are very outdated, so you probably want a regular Debian install and then install hamradio-all or one of hamradio-* with apt.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 10, 2021 17:07 UTC (Fri) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link]

Okay, I'll do it that way.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 10, 2021 23:39 UTC (Fri) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link] (6 responses)

I took a quick look at the Debian lists and tried a few searches using yay -Ss. The AUR seems well populated with hamradio packages so why not stay local for now.

Failing that, whip the compiler out and install random stuff to /usr/local!

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 11, 2021 1:07 UTC (Sat) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link] (5 responses)

I tried to install WSJT-X with paru, and it tried to recompile gcc.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 11, 2021 3:21 UTC (Sat) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link] (4 responses)

I did install Fldigi on it, but I couldn't find Flmsg or Flamp in any repos. I'll probably try to figure out how to add them to the AUR.

I might also try to write some kind of HamClock installer and put it in the AUR. (HamClock has its own update system, so I don't think directly adding it as a package would work.)

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 11, 2021 4:56 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (3 responses)

Debian generally deals with internal updater systems by disabling them, so they don't stop packaging from being added.

HamClock has another weird thing according to Debian folks; you have to compile a new binary for each display resolution you want.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 11, 2021 6:09 UTC (Sat) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link] (1 responses)

I will probably get around the size issue by packaging each size separately. I'll probably make them all conflict with each other to prevent confusing situations with multiple HamClocks.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 13, 2021 19:29 UTC (Mon) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595) [Link]

HamClock is now in the AUR. The packages are hamclock, hamclock-big, hamclock-bigger, and hamclock-huge.

FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 13, 2021 5:19 UTC (Mon) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

Maybe the authors would accept patches to fix this insanity?