[Elecraft] Linux and K3 Utilities

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2015 15 Apr 15:38 -0500, Jobst Vandrey wrote:
> I have been trying to run the K3 utilities on my Linux system (64 bit
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).  I have loaded the items needed to support 32 bit
> software but still can't make it past an error that says:
> 
> "failed to find/load Framework Library"
> 
> Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong???

You're not doing anything "wrong".  The Elecraft utilities are only
built for 32 bit Linux at this time, as I understand it.

Brendan gave good advice below to enable "multiarch" so that the 32 and
64 bit libraries can be installed and used at the same time.
Personally, I didn't care for the aesthetics of that approach so I
installed Debian 7 32 bit in a VirtualBox machine and I run the
utilities from there.  As I use the VM for other things and I don't use
the utilities all that often that approach works for me.

The nice thing about VirtualBox is that you can save the state of the
VM--much like putting a laptop into suspend--and then everything resumes
in a few seconds and when I'm done I save the VM again until next time.

HTH,

73, Nate, N0NB

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