As part of my effort to get QLog running the way I wanted on my Linux Mint computer, I asked for help on Mastodon. There, someone suggested that I might want to run the Andy’s Ham Radio Linux (AHRL) script to install a bunch of ham radio software in one swell foop. That sounded like a good idea, so I gave it a go.
It didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped, though. For example, one of the problems that I encountered was that whenever I inserted a USB stick into the computer, it would automatically start the Chirp program!
I contacted Andy, KB1OIQ, about this, and he pointed me to a bug report on his Sourceforge site. Unfortunately, the fix noted there didn’t work on my installation. We went back and forth on this a couple of times, but in the end, I decided that it wasn’t worth pursuing any further. Instead, I re-installed the operating system, the Vivaldi web browser, and the QLog logging program.
This time, of course, the installation went much more smoothly. Armed with my experience from the previous installation, it took me less than an hour to get back to where I was before the AHRL installation.
When I reported this on Mastodon, several folks there advised me to forget about scripts like this, and do the installations myself, one by one. I can see the wisdom in this now. I would have loved for this to work, and Andy’s done a great job with his script, but it’s next to impossible to account for all of the different configurations out there.
Good morning Dan and yes at time software can be a challenge but great to read that you have things back to normal. If you are interested in contesting with Linux I came across Not1MM. It resembles N1MM+ and here is a link to have a look at it.
https://hamradio.my/2024/03/not1mm-a-new-contest-logger-for-linux/
73,
Mike
VE9KK
Unfortunately, Not1MM doesn’t seem to want to run on this computer. It installs just fine, but when I try to run it, I get the error message, “Incompatible processor. The Qt build requires the following features: sse4.2 popcnt.” I’m trying to figure out what, if anything, I can do about this. I was really looking forward to using Not1MM.
Good morning Dan unfortunately there is no software fix for SSE4.2 (streaming SIMD ext 4.2) or POPCNT (population count instruction). From my research is seems your CPU is to old and Not1MM will run on it. I have read that you can look for older versions of Not1MM and see if they will run but then you are limited to that version. If you want to upgrade the PC then you should be good to go. From online searching it seems Intel i5/i7 4th gen or AMD 3/5 or 7 series.
73,
Mike
VE9KK
Hi Dan! Peculiar I should read this article after thinking I have this as a “round to it” project to do myself, and being reminded of that with this video earlier this afternoon. I think this guy is local to us Dan, I think he’s a Hazel Park ARC member. I seen to recall some videos from him earlier on his channel for NOAA sat antennas.
https://youtu.be/HOQ3WcQOAr8?si=j7psj3KG32c5Jyzi
Hi, Dave. Andy’s Ham Radio Linux might work just fine on your installation, but as I wrote, I couldn’t fix the problem I had after installing it. Nor could Andy. That being the case, I’ve given up on it.