[SMCARA] Ham radio on Linux Mint

[Bill Jones]

I used to play with Wine on Ubuntu. I switched to Linix Mint 17 and I use
something called "PlayOnLinux". Its a front-end for Wine that I have used
for some Windows apps. Nothing with Ham Radio yet, but I might now need to
try. It seems ot do a good job of interfacing and taking some of the
headaches out of dealing with Wine directly. Here is a link you may want to
check out. "
http://www.tecmint.com/playonlinux-run-windows-applications-and-games-on-linux/".
As far as N1MM its a steep one to learn also so far and I am using Windows
for that. Does not play well with HRD. Maybe some of the other Ham Programs
like fldigi, etc. Anyways, check out PlayOn and it might help some. 73 Bill

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Chris Ordiway <kc3dig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good morning all,
>
> If you don't already use Linux you may want to skip this email because it
> won't make much sense. If you're experienced with Linux you may want to
> skip it because I'm new to it and might not make much sense either. :)
>
> I was overdue for a new computer so I decided to shrug off the Microsoft
> shackles, built my own and have installed Mint 17.1. I've used Ubuntu
> occasionally over the years but I'm still at the bottom of the learning
> curve so pardon my ignorance.
>
> I tried installing N1MM under Wine but am getting no love at all from it. I
> click and it ignores me. So I thought I'd try out a native logger instead
> and have been fighting with CQRLog ever since. It's like a 3 Stooges skit
> over here today... CQRLog requires mysql-server for the database but Mint
> comes with mariadb instead. If I install mysql I'm forced to uninstall
> mariadb AND CQRLog. If I reinstall CQRLog it force uninstalls myqsl and
> reinstalls mariadb, just to aggravate me I think. Any ideas? Or even
> better, any luck getting N1MM to run under Wine?
>
> I haven't downloaded HRD yet but if it wont play nice I'll be looking for
> an everyday logging program (like CQRLog *sigh*). At least TQSL seems to
> run OK under Wine and importing the certificate was easy. I also use a
> program called Run Award Statistics that installed fine, I won't know if it
> really functions until I get my master log moved to the new machine.
>
> So, any thoughts? Suggestions on other packages I should check out for ham
> radio on my new Minty machine?
>
> Chris - KC3DIG
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