[Elecraft] K3 Memory Management Program

[David Sanders W4DES]

This is in fact a deficiency in Debian.  Most of the required libs can be installed in a multi-arch configuration where the 32-bit libraries go into a separate directory from the 64-bit libraries.  However the gtkhtml package among others does not yet conform to this standard.  The 32-bit libraries therefore cannot coexist on the same system as the 64-bit libraries.  On Fedora this problem is not there and you can install compat-gtkhtml314.i686 and the Elecraft utilities will display their help.

There are two possible solutions on Debian systems.  The Debian project can fix their libraries or Elecraft can make available a version of their utilities compiled for 64 bits.  It may take a long time for debian to correct their libraries so I would suggest Elecraft take the time to compile their utilities for 64 bits as an alternate download.

73, David W4DES




On May 1, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Pierfrancesco Caci <pf at tippete.net> wrote:
> 
> as a matter of fact, all linux software available on Elecraft website
> works perfectly well on Debian Wheezy at 64 bits EXCEPT the built-in
> help for said software, which requires a library which is not
> available. Not a big deal, since the help system is just html and you
> can just point your browser to the directory and read it. 
> But, in 2014, it would be nice if said software were compiled natively
> for 64 bits. 
> That said, I'm happy that at least one vendor acknowledges the existance
> of linux users. I tend not to buy stuff that tells me which OS I should
> have to use it.