Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X will not run with debian 9.2

2017-10-29 Thread Greg Beam
Hi John, All, Just a quick note regarding the developer section: --- 2) For the wsjtx developers: It's tough to release binary packages that cover the wide range of linux releases. But you can greatly increase the chance of things working by linking statically against smaller libraries like lib

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X will not run with debian 9.2

2017-10-29 Thread Joe Taylor
Hi John, AC0ZG wrote> 2) For the wsjtx developers: It's tough to release binary packages that cover the wide range of linux releases.  But you can greatly increase the chance of things working by linking statically against smaller libraries like libreadline. Of course, you could link staticall

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X will not run with debian 9.2

2017-10-29 Thread John Marvin
On 10/29/2017 4:35 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: Hi Denton, as noted in the User Guide and this file: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/wsjtx-1.8.0/README.txt/download the binary packages for Linux systems that we provide at release time are specifically for the listed distribution

Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X will not run with debian 9.2

2017-10-29 Thread Bill Somerville
On 29/10/2017 10:26, Denton Larson wrote: Unpacking wsjtx (1.8.0) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wsjtx:  wsjtx depends on libreadline6 (>= 6.0); however:   Package libreadline6 is not installed. dpkg: error processing package wsjtx (--install):  dependency problems - leav

[wsjt-devel] WSJT-X will not run with debian 9.2

2017-10-29 Thread Denton Larson
Hi I have a problem dlarson@debian:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i wsjtx_1.8.0_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package wsjtx. (Reading database ... 237585 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack wsjtx_1.8.0_amd64.deb ... Unpacking wsjtx (1.8.0) ... dpkg: dependency pr