Re: ARRL's LoTW with Debian Sarge (solved)
Anyone know if there is any chance to get this ARRL app. updated to work with
the latest version of GTK ? i.e. It would seem simpler than fighting other
programs that want to use the latest GTK.
73;
bob
w9ya
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:47 pm, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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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