Category Archives: Debian

Coping With Color on the Linux Console (and XTerm and friends)

Posted on 03 Feb 2020 by Nate Bargmann 740 views

In the previous post about ANSI escape sequences, terminfo, and the tput utility, what I did not mention is that even though a given color such as blue or cyan is requested, it is beyond the program’s control the actual … Continue reading →

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Tinkering in the terminal with tput

Posted on 01 Feb 2020 by Nate Bargmann 236 views

While it looks like a throwback to the 1980s or even the late 1970s, the terminal is a very capable way of performing tasks on a POSIX (BSD, GNU/Linux, etc.) computer.  Some tasks are simply better suited to a Text … Continue reading →

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Running N1MM+ logger with Wine on Debian Buster

Posted on 03 Dec 2018 by Nate Bargmann 4,116 views

I’m certainly not the first to attempt to run the popular N1MM Logger+ contest logging program on Linux through Wine.  I do think that I’m one of the few (NF8M, W2NRL (thanks to both of you for putting your experiences … Continue reading →

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Compiling WSJT-X 1.7.0 on Devuan Jessie

Posted on 23 Dec 2016 by Nate Bargmann 3,923 views

The latest version of WSJT-X, 1.7.0, was released on 19 December, 2016.  I found that the available Debian formatted package would not install as it is biult for Ubuntu 16.04.1 (and variants) which has a newer version of Qt5 on … Continue reading →

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Running Electraft utilities on Linux amd64 and multiarch

Posted on 31 Jul 2016 by Nate Bargmann 2,398 views

At this time the Elecraft utilities for Linux are only available as i386 32 bit precompiled binaries.  Other architectures such as amd64 or armhf (Raspberry Pi) must use another means, if possible.  The Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives (Ubuntu, … Continue reading →

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