[ubuntu-uk] Ham Radio Fldigi

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi John,


>                  I have down loaded the Fldigi program from a web site. =
> This is a digital radio decoder for radio hams. The file is a bin.tar.gz =
> file, now resident on my desktop.

Do you have a link to the website (See .sig) ?

> I have unzipped it using the tar -xvzf filename bin tar .gz

This is probably incorrect, use :-

cd /tmp
mkdir fldigi
cd fldigi
tar xzvf FULL_PATH_TO/bin.tar.gz

so if your bin.tar.gz is in /home/john/Desktop you would use :-

tar xzvf /home/john/Desktop/bin.tar.gz

and that will untar the file to /tmp/fldigi.

if you now do an 'ls -al' you will see all the files that were extracted
from the tar file.  I suspect there will only be one file or one directory.
With the tar file being called bin.tar.gz, it will probably be a directory
called bin.  In there you should find what is required.  It may be a file,
in which case it will be an executable file e.g. bin.exe which you may
be able to run with ./bin.exe and it will do the install for you.

> I have used the cd filename and the ./configure, make , sudo make =
> install, mostly the response is this is not a directory. I am sorry for =

Probably because 'filename' is not a directory.  configure won't be
found and make won't find Makefile.

> not giving you the actual response as the computer is in the radio shack =
> at another location and there is no printer attached.
> My desktop is "john at john/Desktop, obviously I am not entering the =
> correct file string. Can some one help me with the dialogue I need to =
> enter.

> I have also downloaded some amateur radio stuff using synaptic, now I =
> cannot find the downloads. What do I have to do to install and create a =
> desktop icon ?

I thought synaptic downloaded and installed everything.  It will be
there somewhere.  I don't use synaptic so can't help much with that.

If you do :-

	dpkg -l | grep -i STRING

where STRING is a short string that you would see in the name of the
package, e.g. :-

# dpkg -l | grep -i penguin
ii  xpenguins                       2.2-3
	little penguins walk on your windows

if you get no output then there is a pretty good chance the package isn't
installed.

I suspect the packages are installed they just haven't been added to
your panels/menus.

Again, I'm not familiar with that side of the system - I use the ubuntu
server edition and install what I want rather than use the standard
install so my system is perhaps best described as non-standard :-)

> I am sorry to be so demanding but this is the area I do not understand =
> properly.

Who does ? :-)

73's



Dave
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