[Elecraft] Utilities on Linux

[TL_Netvision]

Hi Nate,

Thanks much for all the info. A great resource indeed. 

I needed to test the P3 utility 1st, and that turned out very simple in my
case (Mint 18.3). I just downloaded the tar.gz file, unpacked it to a
dedicated library under home, made the executable "execute" & voila it
worked. The only disappointment was that again the  P3 utility couldn't
update my P3's firmware. (that's my original W10 problem, which I wanted to
confirm also on Linux.)
 
73, 
Isaac, 4Z1TL

* On 2018 19 Aug 23:40 -0500, TL_Netvision wrote:
> Hello all,
> I want to install the  K3, KPA500, KAT500 & P3 utilities on a Linux
> mint-18.4 computer.
> 
> Any detailed guidelines will be much appreciated.

Is your installation of the amd64 architecture?  On Mint the following
should work:

$ dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

Also, there is the 'arch' command.

If either command returns 'amd64', you may follow the steps I noted on my
blog:

 
https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2016/07/running-electraft-utilities-on-linux-amd64-
and-multiarch/

If either command returns 'i386' or 'i686', thne your system is 32 bit and
the utilities will run directly.  A couple of additional packages will be
required for complete functionality.

As I recently enabled multilib on Slackware, I should document that as well.

HTH,

73, Nate, N0NB

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