Linpac on Raspberry Pi

Over on the RPi list questions are being asked about a packet terminal program for the RPi to satisfy a mild renewal of interest in connected mode packet. As a one-time user of Linpac I decided to try to compile it on the Pi but have run into problems with header files, with vector.h being the one that is stumping further progress. I haven't so far found a Debian package that provides vector.h. I've tried to compile both 0.16 and 0.17-pre with similar results.

I found an email in my archives from David Ranch, dated 21-09-12 in which reference was made to someone running Linpac "with great results". David is listed as the maintainer.

Is anyone here, and specifically David, able to shed any light on the problem?

Over on the RPi list questions are being asked about a packet terminal program for the RPi to satisfy a mild renewal of interest in connected mode packet. As a one-time user of Linpac I decided to try to compile it on the Pi but have run into problems with header files, with vector.h being the one that is stumping further progress. I haven't so far found a Debian package that provides vector.h. I've tried to compile both 0.16 and 0.17-pre with similar results.

I found an email in my archives from David Ranch, dated 21-09-12 in which reference was made to someone running Linpac "with great results". David is listed as the maintainer.

Is anyone here, and specifically David, able to shed any light on the problem?

Hello Ray,

I'm actively working on (finally) releasing a new version of Linpac but Autoconf has been a challenge. I received some great help from the Xastir folks but have a little more to go. Anyway, I have your "vector" and other issues have already been solved with these new patches and I should be able to give you a hand. I do plan on releasing a .debs in the future but until then, try this for non-RPM based systems:

# 0 - Your dependencies will be gcc, perl, ncurses-libs, libax25, and ax25mail-utils
# All compiling details can be found here: http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/hampacketizing-centos.html#11.linpac

# 1 - I highly advise you do NOT compile things on your Rpi's SD card
- it will wear it out. Do all your compiling

# via an NFS mount or an attached USB hard drive , etc.

# 2 - Get the sources (please note that the Ncurses based Linpac is the one I've been focusing so far) cd <your high-write cycle destination path>
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/linpac/LinPac-unstable/0.17pre3/LinPac-0.17pre3.tar.gz

# 3 - Uncompress Linpac
tar xzvf LinPac-0.17pre3.tar.gz

#4 - Get all the required patches
cd LinPac-0.17pre3
wget -r -l1 --no-parent --no-directories -Alinpac0* http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

#5 - Apply the patches
patch -p0 < linpac0-digi-length.diff patch -p0 < linpac0-pcskprsnd.diff patch -p0 < linpac0-compile-fixes.diff patch -p0 < linpac0-compile-fixes2.diff

#6 - Configure and build it ./configure --prefix=/usr
make

The compiler is still throwing warnings but it builds ok on Centos6.5 today. I would appreciate any feedback on how to clean up the warnings as I'd like to get a 100% clean build before I post this new version on SF.net.

#7 - Configure it up by reading the included manual.html documentation and http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/hampacketizing-centos.html#11a.linpacconfig

PS. I'm not on the Rpi list but if you would, please cross-post this response over there as well. I'd love to get more users on Linpac and get some additional developers on board!

--David
KI6ZHD

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Over on the RPi list questions are being asked about a packet terminal program for the RPi to satisfy a mild renewal of interest in connected mode packet. As a one-time user of Linpac I decided to try to compile it on the Pi but have run into problems with header files, with vector.h being the one that is stumping further progress. I haven't so far found a Debian package that provides vector.h. I've tried to compile both 0.16 and 0.17-pre with similar results.

I found an email in my archives from David Ranch, dated 21-09-12 in which reference was made to someone running Linpac "with great results". David is listed as the maintainer.

Is anyone here, and specifically David, able to shed any light on the problem?

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply and the information. This is great news.

#0 I didn't realise that ax25mail-utils was a dependency because the documentation talks about getting mail as being optional. I've met the other requirements.
#1 On this particular occasion I'm not concerned about the SD card wearing out but I take your point. It's convenient at the moment to wear out the card.
#2 I also have concentrated on the curses version. An attempt with the Java version quite some years back failed and I walked away from it. Besides, the curses version fits well with headless operation of the RPi.

I'll get and apply the patches and see what happens next. Another member of the RPi list, Tom SP2LOB is also running with this project.

I'm not a programmer or a developer but my twenty years of Debian has taught me what some of the compile errors mean, even if I can't resolve them <grin>

Thanks, David.

Ray vk2tv

Quoted 8 lines · David Ranch

Hello Ray,

I'm actively working on (finally) releasing a new version of Linpac but Autoconf has been a challenge. I received some great help from the Xastir folks but have a little more to go. Anyway, I have your "vector" and other issues have already been solved with these new patches and I should be able to give you a hand. I do plan on releasing a .debs in the future but until then, try this for non-RPM based systems:

# 0 - Your dependencies will be gcc, perl, ncurses-libs, libax25, and ax25mail-utils
# All compiling details can be found here: http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/hampacketizing-centos.html#11.linpac

David,

A correction on what I previously wrote about meeting dependencies. ncurses-libs is not in the Debian repositories. In Debian I use libncurses5-dev to meet dependencies when compiling kernel ax25 and I've not yet had any curses header errors with Linpac. I'm guessing libncurses5-dev provides the headers provided by ncurse-libs in RPM based systems. Right/wrong???

Ray vk2tv

Quoted 21 lines · Ray Wells

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply and the information. This is great news.

#0 I didn't realise that ax25mail-utils was a dependency because the documentation talks about getting mail as being optional. I've met the other requirements.
#1 On this particular occasion I'm not concerned about the SD card wearing out but I take your point. It's convenient at the moment to wear out the card.
#2 I also have concentrated on the curses version. An attempt with the Java version quite some years back failed and I walked away from it. Besides, the curses version fits well with headless operation of the RPi.

I'll get and apply the patches and see what happens next. Another member of the RPi list, Tom SP2LOB is also running with this project.

I'm not a programmer or a developer but my twenty years of Debian has taught me what some of the compile errors mean, even if I can't resolve them <grin>

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Thanks, David.

Ray vk2tv

Quoted 17 lines · David Ranch

Hello Ray,

I'm actively working on (finally) releasing a new version of Linpac but Autoconf has been a challenge. I received some great help from the Xastir folks but have a little more to go. Anyway, I have your "vector" and other issues have already been solved with these new patches and I should be able to give you a hand. I do plan on releasing a .debs in the future but until then, try this for non-RPM based systems:

# 0 - Your dependencies will be gcc, perl, ncurses-libs, libax25, and ax25mail-utils
# All compiling details can be found here:
http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/hampacketizing-centos.html#11.linpac

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Hello Ray,

This is a classic example of why maintaining software is difficult in Linux.. everyone distro seems to want a different name for the same package. Regardless, what you have on your Rpi seems Ok.

I'll try compiling it on my Rpi too (it's running F6BVP's version of Raspian which is based on Wheezy).

--David

Quoted 62 lines · Ray Wells

David,

A correction on what I previously wrote about meeting dependencies. ncurses-libs is not in the Debian repositories. In Debian I use libncurses5-dev to meet dependencies when compiling kernel ax25 and I've not yet had any curses header errors with Linpac. I'm guessing libncurses5-dev provides the headers provided by ncurse-libs in RPM based systems. Right/wrong???

Ray vk2tv

Quoted 44 lines · Ray Wells

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply and the information. This is great news.

#0 I didn't realise that ax25mail-utils was a dependency because the documentation talks about getting mail as being optional. I've met the other requirements.
#1 On this particular occasion I'm not concerned about the SD card wearing out but I take your point. It's convenient at the moment to wear out the card.
#2 I also have concentrated on the curses version. An attempt with the Java version quite some years back failed and I walked away from it. Besides, the curses version fits well with headless operation of the RPi.

I'll get and apply the patches and see what happens next. Another member of the RPi list, Tom SP2LOB is also running with this project.

I'm not a programmer or a developer but my twenty years of Debian has taught me what some of the compile errors mean, even if I can't resolve them <grin>

Thanks, David.

Ray vk2tv

Quoted 18 lines · David Ranch

Hello Ray,

I'm actively working on (finally) releasing a new version of Linpac but Autoconf has been a challenge. I received some great help from the Xastir folks but have a little more to go. Anyway, I have your "vector" and other issues have already been solved with these new patches and I should be able to give you a hand. I do plan on releasing a .debs in the future but until then, try this for non-RPM based systems:

# 0 - Your dependencies will be gcc, perl, ncurses-libs, libax25, and ax25mail-utils
# All compiling details can be found here:
http://www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/hampacketizing-centos.html#11.linpac

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Hi David, Gave it a go on the beaglebone but I couldn't get the axmail to compile. It is looking a file called vector.c any clues? I think I remember some email from you or someone else about that file?

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Hi David, Gave it a go on the beaglebone but I couldn't get the axmail to compile. It is looking a file called vector.c any clues? I think I remember some email from you or someone else about that file?

Ah.. ok, try this:

cd /tmp
wget http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ax25mail/ax25mail-utils/0.11/ax25mail-utils-0.11.tar.gz

tar xzvf ax25mail-utils-0.11.tar.gz
cd ax25mail-utils-0.11

wget http://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/ax25mail-utils/ax25mail-utils_0.11-6.1.diff.gz

wget www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ax25mail-utils_0.11-ulistd.diff

gunzip ax25mail-utils_0.11-6.1.diff.gz

patch -p1 < ax25mail-utils_0.11-6.1.diff
patch -p1 < ax25mail-utils_0.11-ulistd.diff

./configure
make

--David

Hi David, That fixed the problem for the ax25mail-utils but I think it broke the axmail.cc program. Now it complains it can't find vector.h and fstream.h. I changed them to use the vector and fstream but that caused more problems it couldn't find gets and some other functions then.

Best Regards,
Joe G.

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Hi David, Gave it a go on the beaglebone but I couldn't get the axmail to compile. It is looking a file called vector.c any clues? I think I remember some email from you or someone else about that file?

Ah.. ok, try this:

cd /tmp
wget
http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/ax25mail/ax25mail-utils/0.11/ax25mail-utils-0.11.tar.gz

tar xzvf ax25mail-utils-0.11.tar.gz
cd ax25mail-utils-0.11

wget
http://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/ax25mail-utils/ax25mail-utils_0.11-6.1.diff.gz

wget www.trinityos.com/HAM/CentosDigitalModes/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ax25mail-utils_0.11-ulistd.diff

gunzip ax25mail-utils_0.11-6.1.diff.gz

patch -p1 < ax25mail-utils_0.11-6.1.diff
patch -p1 < ax25mail-utils_0.11-ulistd.diff

./configure
make

--David

# 1 - I highly advise you do NOT compile things on your Rpi's SD card - it will wear it out. Do all your compiling

# via an NFS mount or an attached USB hard drive , etc.