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FOSS for amateur radio

Posted Sep 11, 2021 1:07 UTC (Sat) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595)
In reply to: FOSS for amateur radio by gerdesj
Parent article: FOSS for amateur radio

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

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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.

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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?