Re: ARRL's LoTW with Debian Sarge (solved)

From: Bob Nielsen (ldgz.vjgkx@foonarf.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 20:47:37 EEST

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    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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Bob Nielsen, N7XY                          n7xy (at) n7xy.net
Bainbridge Island, WA                      http://www.n7xy.net
 
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