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    From F8BOE@f8boe-8@bluemail.ch to alt.ham-radio.packet on Sun Jun 5 17:38:21 2005
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    Hello,

    Where could I find some serious informations and rpm packages to get
    hamradio softwares to run with mandrake 10.x and up?

    N9NU's pages are of no use as far as I've seen: many text with no useful
    links nor helpfiles.

    73 de F8BOE Olivier ...-.-
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  • From Larry@larryw@holbrookmasons.org to alt.ham-radio.packet on Sun Jun 5 09:19:11 2005
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.packet

    F8BOE wrote:
    Hello,

    Where could I find some serious informations and rpm packages to get
    hamradio softwares to run with mandrake 10.x and up?

    N9NU's pages are of no use as far as I've seen: many text with no useful links nor helpfiles.

    73 de F8BOE Olivier ...-.-

    What sort of software are you trying to run, Olivier? Windows-based
    programs would only run if you had WINE installed (came with MDK 10.x, I believe, but available from www.winehq.com) and configured, but there is
    no guarantee. If your programs are DOS-based, WINE may help, but DOSEMU (www.dosemu.org) could also do the trick. Again, no promise that the
    program will run.

    73 de N1POP
    Larry
    CN85lm
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  • From F8BOE@f8boe-8@bluemail.ch to alt.ham-radio.packet on Sun Jun 5 20:50:32 2005
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.packet

    Hello,

    Thank's larry for answering quickly.

    I just want to run the usual packet, APRS, SSTV, PSK31 programs we can find
    for Debian or Suse but I still can't find any rpms for MDK10.1 or MDV
    LE2005.

    You know, LinKT, Linpsk, Xastir... Sure, they should be less handy and far
    from perfect as my favourite Win programs, but I think it's worth giving it
    a try.

    It seems that Mandrake is the most user friendly/hamradio unfriendly distro available...

    73 de F8BOE Olivier ...-.-



    Larry wrote:

    F8BOE wrote:
    Hello,

    Where could I find some serious informations and rpm packages to get
    hamradio softwares to run with mandrake 10.x and up?

    N9NU's pages are of no use as far as I've seen: many text with no useful
    links nor helpfiles.

    73 de F8BOE Olivier ...-.-

    What sort of software are you trying to run, Olivier? Windows-based
    programs would only run if you had WINE installed (came with MDK 10.x, I believe, but available from www.winehq.com) and configured, but there is
    no guarantee. If your programs are DOS-based, WINE may help, but DOSEMU (www.dosemu.org) could also do the trick. Again, no promise that the
    program will run.

    73 de N1POP
    Larry
    CN85lm

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  • From Larry@larryw@holbrookmasons.org to alt.ham-radio.packet on Sun Jun 5 15:30:13 2005
    From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio.packet

    F8BOE wrote:
    Hello,

    Thank's larry for answering quickly.

    I just want to run the usual packet, APRS, SSTV, PSK31 programs we can find for Debian or Suse but I still can't find any rpms for MDK10.1 or MDV
    LE2005.

    If you can find the sources, particularly those not platform-specific,
    they compile rather painlessly. Typically I extract the downloaded
    package to a folder in my home directory, run .configure and then run
    "make install" as root.

    You know, LinKT, Linpsk, Xastir... Sure, they should be less handy and far from perfect as my favourite Win programs, but I think it's worth giving it
    a try.

    It seems that Mandrake is the most user friendly/hamradio unfriendly distro available...

    Sometimes it seems that way.

    73 de N1POP
    Larry
    CN85lm
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