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Re: ARRL's LoTW with Debian Sarge (solved)



I noticed that the download page now shows which version of GTK is
required for the RH7 and RH8 version of TrustedQSL.  With the RH7
version (converted to Debian with alien), I no longer receive the error
message and was able to sign and upload my log files without further
problems.

Bob, N7XY


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:34:44PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Has anybody tried TrustedQSL version 1.07?  When I get to the point of
> creating the signed file, tqsl gives me the following error and then
> dies:
> 
> tqsl: relocation error: tqsl: undefined symbol: tqsl_setADIFConverterDateFilte
>  
> I was able to create files with 1.06, but the LOTW system doesn't
> appear to like them and gives me this (I did successfully go through
> the certificate process):
> 
> 2003-09-23 17:30:41 LOTW_QSO:  Error in record 3: No recognized signing specification in tCONTACT record
> 
> I didn't have any of these problems with the beta-test versions.
> 
> This is on a Debian (mostly Sarge with a bit of Sid) system, using
> alien to convert the files.  I also tried compiling from source, but
> had trouble with both trustedqsl (configure can't locate tqsllib even if
> I specify the location) and tqsllib (/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liberty).
> 
> Puzzled,
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:14:42PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> > 
> > For most on this list what I'm about describe is probably old hat, but
> > there may be some newcomers that would find this helpful in the list
> > archives.
> > 
> > As most are probably aware, the American Radio Relay League has been
> > working for a few years on a way to digitally sign log submissions for
> > electronic application for their various awards.  In the October 2003 
> > issue of QST (Amateur Windows?  8-) it has been announced that this 
> > program was opened to general use as of 15 September 2003.  On the 
> > Logbook of The World web page:
> > 
> > http://www.arrl.org/lotw/
> > 
> > there is a library and programs for signing and generating log data for
> > Linux.  These programs are provided in binary form only for Red Hat 7.2
> > and 8.0 releases and are RPMs.  Also provided are source RPMs for the
> > library and the applications.  These archives are not directly
> > installable as managed packages on my Linux distribution of choice, 
> > Debian, so they must be converted using a utility called Alien.
> > 
> > Having never needed Debian's Alien before, I decided this was as good of
> > a time as any to try it.  I grabbed the RH 8.0 RPMs and the source RPMs,
> > just in case.
> > 
> > I installed alien, rpm, libwxbase2.4, and libwxgtk2.4 as the web page
> > said the programs depended on WXWin 2.4.
> > 
> > Converting the RPMs to .deb's was straightforward with alien and
> > installation with dpkg completed without error.  I attempted to start
> > tqsl, but the startup failed.  A quick ldd /usr/bin/tqsl revealed a
> > dependency on libcrypto.so.2 that was not found.  Using the package
> > search page on the Debian site:
> > 
> > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> > 
> > I found that it was a part of the libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.6 packages,
> > the latter version being in the oldlibs section.
> > 
> > Well, I created a symlink to libcrypto.so.0.9.7 named libcrypto.so.2:
> > 
> > ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.7 libcrypto.so.2
> > 
> > (actually I used Midnight Commander, but this is generic--don't forget
> > you'll need to be root as these files reside in /usr/lib) and tried
> > again.  Running tqsl worked fine, but tqslcert failed with a relocation
> > error.
> > 
> > Poking around in the README in the tqsllib archive I found where the
> > library is dependent on OpenSSL 0.9.6.  So I redid my symlink to point
> > to libcrypto.so.0.9.6 and tqslcert loaded and ran.
> > 
> > In tqslcert I was able to create my certificate request and am now
> > waiting for the authentication process.
> > 
> > One quirk or bug I noticed in tqslcert is that if the Help button is
> > clicked and then the help window is backgrounded, the window that called
> > the help window is frozen and will remain so until the help window is
> > closed.  This may be a problem in WxWin, I don't know.
> > 
> > So there you have it, my micro-HOWTO on LoTW on Debian Sarge (Testing).
> > 
> > 73, de Nate >>
> > 
> > P.S. I keep this system updated about once per week.  An older Testing
> > snapshot may or may not work.  The same caveat may apply to Sid
> > (Unstable).
> > 
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy (at) n7xy.net
Bainbridge Island, WA                      http://www.n7xy.net
 



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