[pskmail] pskmail on ubunto
- From: Jean-Claude GUILLOT <jcjglt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:01:48 +1100
FK8IH Jean-Claude,
A LINUX user some 10+ years ago(Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake) then moved to
Windows XP then back to LINUX (Ubuntu Karmic) when changing of lap-top
about two weeks ago.
I am very satisfied with fldigi-3.13BP and jpskmail-0.4.0.2 on my XP
platform
but wanted to get the same softwares on Ubuntu, with some difficulties
but it is
eventually very easy.
1. fldigi : I installed the obsolete fldigi-3.11.4-1 in Ubuntu from the
current Ubuntu
distribution logitheque and configured it.
Then I downloaded fldigi-3.13BP.npa.bin.tgz from
http://www.w1hkj.com/alpha and
decompressed it, I then got two executable files : *flark and *fldigi
which I
copied to /usr/local/bin (using sudo mc, mc for Midnight Commander, an
old files
manager which I would recommend as it is very powerful and easy to use in a
terminal).
When I started again fldigi from the menu, the updated version 13BP started.
I copied also < *cty.dat > in my /home/<user/.fldigi directory, which adds a
very useful "countries" button in the "view" menu of fldigi.
2. jpskmail : I downloaded jPSKmail-0.4.0.2-Linux-x86-Install from
http://hermes.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pskmail/
<http://hermes.essac.ele.tue.nl/pskmail/> and opened it by double
clicking this
file. It installed OK.
But it did not work and I had to install the < Sun Java6 Execution
Environment >
with Synaptic packages manager.
Bad luck again, I had to edit the jpskmail button of the Applications
Menu to
move it to my Hamradio button in the same Applications Menu (just a
matter of good order of my menus)
and I had to get it work to edit again this Applications menu to go to
the "jpskmail" command button properties
and paste in the <command> tag the following :
< java -jar "/home/<user>/jpskmail/javapskmail.jar" >
Now it worked perfectly as it does on Windows XP.
Hope I was not too long and it might be useful to others.
73's, JC FK8IH
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