Good morning, Rick. I am not an Ubuntu expert by any stretch of the imagination. I have been playing around with it a bit, though. I also downloaded the fldigi package using Synaptic. The installer does not put an icon on your desktop, or an item in your menu. Here's what I had to do:
Use your file browser to go to the /usr/bin directory. There you will find a file called 'fldigi'. Click on that and the program will run. Now I have to figure out how to install the newer version of the program that is not in the Synaptic repository yet. I also have to figure out how to get Ubuntu to recognize my rig interface which is connected using a USB to serial adapter. So many things to do . . . Good luck and 73. Roy N9RG Rick wrote: > > I am trying (yet again) to use Linux in a practical manner. With my > older computer the newest version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has the > correct drivers for my 22" Samsung Monitor. I have downloaded fldigi, > geoid, fl_logbook, and flarq. I double click on the binary .tgz and it > brings up File Roller (not exactly what the help says, but this is Linux > and there are some gotchas and what some might call small errors, but > frustrating when you trying to do it right). It is not as intuitive as > Windows programs, but I am thinking I am doing the right thing and > trying to extract the components. It seems to be happening and then I > have a representation of the program as an icon and the properties of > the icon says it is an executable program. > > In some cases there is yet another installation script but when I run > that, nothing happens. None of the binaries will actually work.. Except > on time I did get fldigi to come up on the screen, but after that ... > nothing. So I have to be doing one or more things wrong. I have spent > quite a few hours trying to figure this out, but no luck so far. > > Anyone have an idea what needs to be done in addition to what I am > trying to do? > > I might mention that I was able to use Synaptic to retrieve the binaries > for gMFSK and XLog and they both installed OK and it put the apps in a > menu called "Other." Oddly, when I tried to do the same with the older > version of fldigi, v. 1.33 (new is 2.04) it did not work either. > > 73, > > Rick, KV9U > > Paul L Schmidt, K9PS wrote: > > Yes - fldigi doesn't (at least, not yet) support MT-63. I found > > the ubuntu repository and the gmfsk package... although I'll have > > to do some research to tell him how to get it installed. He's > > a Linux very-newbie, and I'm a Linux old-timer but haven't used > > ubuntu enough to know how to have it fetch the packages. I shouldn't > > have any problems getting that figured out, though. I survived the > > transition from SLS to Slackware's .tgz files to RedHat RPM's :) > > > > > > Thanks for the info. > > > > 73, > > > > Paul / K9PS > > > >
