Re: [Tlf-devel] TLF install and newer computer

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Bruce,

Am Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
schrieb Jim Bruce <address@hidden>:

> Is there a reason for not installing from Github vs the repository. I
> take it that there is a special repo for tlf than what is in Ubuntu
> (ver 1.1.5)? What is the repo url or path to put in Ubuntu software
> sources?

Normally the github sources are newer than the versions that are in
official distro repos. So there are new features, fixed bugs 
and so on. But there may be situations where the head of the github
repo is a work in progress and not very stable. 

If you are not interested to fight with such problems I would suggest
to use the last released version from github (at the moment tlf-1.2.1).
So after your

> git clone https://github.com/Tlf/tlf.git tlf

do a 

git checkout tlf-1.2.1

If you are interested in newer, experimental features have a close
look and check also the mailing list here.

Btw, each released version is announced here (see the archives) and can
be downloaded as a packaged source tar ball from the given url.

73, de Tom DL1JBE.

> 
> Here is what I have used before and to update tlf which includes some
> of the prerequisites and appears to git from guthub/Tlf.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #If you want a non-root local install you can do the following:
> 
> 
> #Create your local programs directory and add it to your path
> echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
> source ~/.bashrc
> mkdir ~/local
> 
> #for local hamlib 
> #echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/local/lib' >> ~/.bashrc
> #source ~/.bashrc
> 
> 
> #Install tlf
> 
> #first install these so tlf will configure without complaining
> 
> sudo apt-get install build-essential 
> sudo apt-get install autoconf
> sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
> sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
> 
> git clone https://github.com/Tlf/tlf.git tlf
> pushd tlf
> autoreconf --install
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable hamlib
> #for hamlib
> #PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/local/lib/pkgconfig/ ./configure
> --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-hamlib make install
> popd 
> 
> 
> echo tlf will be in $HOME/local
> echo directions are in $HOME/local/share/tlf
> 
> Jim/W3FA
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed" <address@hidden>
> To: "Ervin Hegedüs" <address@hidden>, "Jim Bruce"
> <address@hidden>, "TLF" <address@hidden> Sent: Sunday,
> August 31, 2014 3:30:12 PM Subject: Re: [Tlf-devel] TLF install and
> newer computer
> 
> 
> >>  From a terminal ::
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get install build-essentials
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get build-dep tlf
> >>
> >> Make sure you have all the needed repositories checked.
> >
> > at this way you will compile and install Tlf from the repository,
> > not from the current source tree, from Github.
> >
> >
> > Ervin
> > HA2OS
> >
> >
> 
> No, that is not correct. To install tlf from the repository::
> 
> sudo apt-get install tlf
> 
> The 1st one installs the basic tools for building from source.
> 
> The 2nd one installs only the dependencies that tlf needs.
> 
> Ed W3NR
> 
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