Patrick Gross wrote:

On Monday 26 September 2005 10:32 pm, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Hi.

It has been discussed before, but I have lost the details. On older SuSE dists we had ham software on the cd's, but they are not to be found anylonger. What is the alternative ?

73 de Erik OZ4KK

From Mike, W1NR,

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.

Hope this helps... --- Patrick Gross - kc7tqz Maple Valley, WA

Hi Mike. Very nice for your reply, and tnx so much. Ok about where to find the stuff, and what to be care of when installing. 73 de Erik OZ4KK

Curt, WE7U wrote:

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Patrick Gross wrote:

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On Monday 26 September 2005 10:32 pm, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Hi.

It has been discussed before, but I have lost the details. On older SuSE dists we had ham software on the cd's, but they are not to be found anylonger. What is the alternative ?

73 de Erik OZ4KK

From Mike, W1NR,

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/

And for Xastir, which is the X11 APRS application, you must to go to the Xastir's distribution site to download it as it's apparently no longer distributed with SuSE:

http://www.xastir.org

-- 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. Tnx Curt for your reply. Yes I run Xastir :-). I use the CVS, and how to do to download it that way ?. Can you give me the Xastir's distribution site. Tnx in advance Erik OZ4KK

Curt, WE7U wrote:

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Tnx Curt for your reply. Yes I run Xastir :-). I use the CVS, and how to do to download it that way ?. Can you give me the Xastir's distribution site.

Click on the "SourceForge" link at the bottom middle of the www.xastir.org page.

There's a "CVS" link from there that'll take you to the CVS instructions. If you go to "Browse CVS Repository" from there you can get to the xastir/README.CVS file which gives more details on how to go about it.

-- 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!"

Thank you Curt. 73 de Erik OZ4KK

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir co -P /modulename/

Yea. Those two lines will get you going. Just change "modulename" to "xastir". Those instructions are generic for all SourceForge projects.

Updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter.

*NOTE:* UNIX file and directory names are case sensitive. The path to the project CVSROOT must be specified using lowercase characters (i.e. /cvsroot/xastir)

And without the -d ?.

Only if you've already checked it out via CVS. For instance, I might go to ~/src and then type in the two lines above. I believe that will get you an "xastir" directory at ~/src/xastir in that case. I then "cd xastir", and I can then type further cvs commands, like "cvs update", and I don't need to specify anything further to get the latest Xastir code. After that, it's the usual: ./bootstrap.sh ./configure make su make install chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir exit (from root)

I have installed Xastir via CVS. How will I have the:

X11 APRS application

Or do I have this already since Xastir is running here ?.

Maybe I could have seen it if I ran a configure ?.

The only X11 APRS applications I know of are X-APRS (still in beta as far as I know, from the WinAPRS/MacAPRS guys), and Xastir. There are Java APRS clients out there too. You'll need to configure/install Xastir, then kill/restart in order to have the latest version running. Enough about Xastir on this list I suppose, since it's not really an SuSE ham application anymore... Subscribe to the Xastir mailing list at www.xastir.org (links are on the left) for further questions/discussion about Xastir. Thanks for the interest! -- 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!"