I have just updated my old Suse 8.0 to 9.3 and find all the ham radio applications are not present. The rpm files are on my old Suse 8.0 .CD4/suse/ham1/ diectory but nothing on the 9.3 CDs. As the versions from 8.0 are now old I am reluctant to use them. Is there an easy to find set of ham software somewhere on the suse site or has ham support been lost? Richard
The kernel stuff is there. The applications are no longer on the distribution. To install them, bring up YaST. Go to "Change Source of Installation". Add an FTP installation source pointing to the ham "project" on a mirror with a complete distribution such as: server ftp.esat.net directory mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386/ Go to install and remove software. If you select "Package Groups" you will see the ham radio packages under "Productivity->Hamradio. Check off what you want and click accept. The packages will get installed. Be sure to have your CD's/DVD available if any other packages need to get installed due to dependencies. Mike, W1NR -----Original Message----- From: G4BBH@Winlink.org [mailto:G4BBH@Winlink.org] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:20 AM To: suse-ham-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-ham-e] HAN RADUO SOFTWARE AND SUSE 9.3 I have just updated my old Suse 8.0 to 9.3 and find all the ham radio applications are not present. The rpm files are on my old Suse 8.0 .CD4/suse/ham1/ diectory but nothing on the 9.3 CDs. As the versions from 8.0 are now old I am reluctant to use them. Is there an easy to find set of ham software somewhere on the suse site or has ham support been lost? Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-ham-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-ham-e-help@suse.com
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
The kernel stuff is there. The applications are no longer on the distribution. To install them, bring up YaST. Go to "Change Source of Installation". Add an FTP installation source pointing to the ham "project" on a mirror with a complete distribution such as:
server ftp.esat.net directory mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386/
Go to install and remove software. If you select "Package Groups" you will see the ham radio packages under "Productivity->Hamradio. Check off what you want and click accept. The packages will get installed. Be sure to have your CD's/DVD available if any other packages need to get installed due to dependencies.
If you're looking for Xastir (APRS client app), find it at www.xastir.org. There's some disagreement over the license wording on one body of code that Xastir uses, so SuSE has dropped it from their distribution. Perhaps I should send them a list of other applications the distribute which use the same module and licensing so they can drop those too, then the users would REALLY scream! ;-) -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"
Hi -- I would also suggest that you run YaST's Online Update right after doing this, so it can pick up any updates to stock SuSE packages that get installed through dependencies. 73, -Ed- AB8OJ On Aug 11, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
The kernel stuff is there. The applications are no longer on the distribution. To install them, bring up YaST. Go to "Change Source of Installation". Add an FTP installation source pointing to the ham "project" on a mirror with a complete distribution such as:
server ftp.esat.net directory mirrors/ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386/
Go to install and remove software. If you select "Package Groups" you will see the ham radio packages under "Productivity->Hamradio. Check off what you want and click accept. The packages will get installed. Be sure to have your CD's/DVD available if any other packages need to get installed due to dependencies.
Mike, W1NR
-----Original Message----- From: G4BBH@Winlink.org [mailto:G4BBH@Winlink.org] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:20 AM To: suse-ham-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-ham-e] HAN RADUO SOFTWARE AND SUSE 9.3
I have just updated my old Suse 8.0 to 9.3 and find all the ham radio applications are not present. The rpm files are on my old Suse 8.0 .CD4/suse/ham1/ diectory but nothing on the 9.3 CDs. As the versions from 8.0 are now old I am reluctant to use them. Is there an easy to find set of ham software somewhere on the suse site or has ham support been lost? Richard
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