George <w...@p3hosting.com> writes: > Hello, > > I am running Mint Linux 18.2 & 18.3 (2 different computers) which are > both long term support releases and are supported till 2021. > > When I attempt to install wsjtx 2.0.0 (amd64) it states that I need > libc6 to be greater than 2.27 the version of libc6 that is installed on > my computer is 2.23 and there is upgarde to install the version you are > requiring. > > Please either fix the version 2 code to allow execution on my machines > or provide back compatibility to version 1.9 so that I can run your > software. > > Regards, > > George
If the wsjt maintainers are interested, I am willing to work on packaging WSJTX for flatpak over the holiday break. Flatpak is ideal for packaging software like wsjtx insofar as it gracefully handles the out-of-tree hamlib distribution. Installation on linux for non-technical users becomes much easier --- flathub manages building and distribution, and users would only need to enable the flathub repository. After this, they simply search for it in their Software Center, and wsjtx need-not be updated on its own. Flatpak is supported by all major distributions. If I am going to go through the effort of doing so, however, I would like confirmation that you are interested in making this a supported release mechanism for linux users. I am unable to operate HF during the semester, so I do not follow releases very closely, and would not like to have users installing the package from Flathub and being frustrated by delayed updates. Version bumping is very simple (simply update checksums in a yaml file and push to a special github repository --- flathub watches for changes on that repository and handles building), so if you are willing to manage these version bumps yourself, even better. Information on flatpak and flathub can be found here: [1]: http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html [2]: https://flathub.org/about _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
