[Dxspider-support] DX Spider on Suse 12.1

[Tom Vavra]

get the WPXLOC.RAW file when you get the current CTY.DAT


On Friday 11 May 2012 22:45, KL5E wrote:
> My older Suse 11.x system died after a power outage last week.  So I took
> the opportunity to install Suse 12.1 and the latest version of DX Spider.
> Here are some of the things I needed to do.
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> 1.       Installed Time/Date from the Suse s/w distribution
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> 2.       Installed TimeHiRes from CPAN, this requires gcc
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> 3.       Installed gcc from the Suse s/w distribution
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> 4.       Installed Curses from the Suse s/w distribution
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> 5.       Installed Net-Telnet-3.03 from CPAN
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> 6.       Installed Digest-SHA-5.71  (cannot find 2.01 as per Instructions)
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> 7.       Make the client program in /src
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> 8.       Run create_sysop.pl from /perl
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> 9.       Run create_prefix.pl from /perl after downloading latest cty file.
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> Restore /connect  /local and /local_cmd as from the old version.  I did not
> backup the old data and logs.
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> I believe the Suse clock is set to automatically update but I'm not
> entirely certain.  It seems to be keeping accurate time so far.
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> I'm sure I did other things to get it up and running but that's all I
> remember right now.
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> So, KL7G.ORG port 8000 is alive once more.
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> Bob (kl5e at arrl.net)