Elecraft SW (and wsjt-x) on Ubuntu 18.04 anyone?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Anyone have any luck?

So far KPA1500Util works great. I think I may have figured out how to
get k3util working. Now I'm trying to get wsjt-x working.

The other option is to install Windows but Linux is my day job and most
of my computers run Linux/NetBSD/MacOS.

So I guess the question really is whether anyone has wsjt-x working on
Ubuntu 18.04 with their K3(S).

Thanks.

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The KX3util, you'll need to get/install curl, else it wont be able to
get updates etc.  (It doesn’t check when you launch it, it just fails to
communicate with Elecraft's server when it tries.)

The utility itself, you just extract the executable to a folder of your
choice, there is no "install" as such.  Well, the last time I looked!

Re WSJT-X.  Should be easy, just pull the appropriate (32/64 bit) .deb
from:-

    http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html       (Scroll down)

And install it that way, the system will/should pull any needed
dependencies (Qt5 etc) you may not yet have.

Unless you want to build from source, then follow the usual links to
source forge, but expect to have to also install several lib
dependencies, even then you'll probably need to sign up to the
developers mail list to get it to build correctly on your system. 
(Devil in the detail etc.)

I'm running the Elecraft tools on Mint 17 and 18, and WSJT-X on Mint
18.  (All 32 bit) Ubuntu derivatives of course.

The latest WSJTX tools wont run on Mint 17, as QT5 does not support
Ubuntu 14.04, that Mint 17 is based on.

~ ~ ~

You can also find the official 32 bit Windows version there too, if
anyone needs.


73.

Dave G0WBX.

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On 26/07/18 18:28, [hidden email] wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft SW (and wsjt-x) on Ubuntu 18.04 anyone?
> Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
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> Anyone have any luck?
>
> So far KPA1500Util works great. I think I may have figured out how to
> get k3util working. Now I'm trying to get wsjt-x working.
>
> The other option is to install Windows but Linux is my day job and most
> of my computers run Linux/NetBSD/MacOS.
>
> So I guess the question really is whether anyone has wsjt-x working on
> Ubuntu 18.04 with their K3(S).
>
> Thanks.

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[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Ah, curl. I also found a web page that documented (mostly) what I needed
to do to get k3util working on 64-bit Ubuntu (the gtk line is a bit
off).

http://sy-edm.com/stories/elecraft-k-software-in-linux.html

Turns out most of my issues are due to the serial line and the Remoterig
RRC-1258 MKII. I'm not sure how to to get the Remoterig and the computer
to share the serial line to the K3S. Still fiddling with it.

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Dave B via Elecraft wrote:

> The KX3util, you'll need to get/install curl, else it wont be able to
> get updates etc.  (It doesn?t check when you launch it, it just fails to
> communicate with Elecraft's server when it tries.)
>
> The utility itself, you just extract the executable to a folder of your
> choice, there is no "install" as such.  Well, the last time I looked!
>
> Re WSJT-X.  Should be easy, just pull the appropriate (32/64 bit) .deb
> from:-
>
>     http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html       (Scroll down)
>
> And install it that way, the system will/should pull any needed
> dependencies (Qt5 etc) you may not yet have.
>
> Unless you want to build from source, then follow the usual links to
> source forge, but expect to have to also install several lib
> dependencies, even then you'll probably need to sign up to the
> developers mail list to get it to build correctly on your system.
> (Devil in the detail etc.)
>
> I'm running the Elecraft tools on Mint 17 and 18, and WSJT-X on Mint
> 18.  (All 32 bit) Ubuntu derivatives of course.
>
> The latest WSJTX tools wont run on Mint 17, as QT5 does not support
> Ubuntu 14.04, that Mint 17 is based on.
>
> ~ ~ ~
>
> You can also find the official 32 bit Windows version there too, if
> anyone needs.
>
>
> 73.
>
> Dave G0WBX.
>
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> On 26/07/18 18:28, [hidden email] wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <[hidden email]>
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft SW (and wsjt-x) on Ubuntu 18.04 anyone?
>> Message-ID: <[hidden email]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII
>>
>> Anyone have any luck?
>>
>> So far KPA1500Util works great. I think I may have figured out how to
>> get k3util working. Now I'm trying to get wsjt-x working.
>>
>> The other option is to install Windows but Linux is my day job and most
>> of my computers run Linux/NetBSD/MacOS.
>>
>> So I guess the question really is whether anyone has wsjt-x working on
>> Ubuntu 18.04 with their K3(S).
>>
>> Thanks.
>
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