RE: HAN RADUO SOFTWARE AND SUSE 9.3

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!
;-)

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