README
11. About Grig
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3Grig is a graphical user interface for the Ham Radio Control Libraries. It is
4intended to be simple and generic, presenting the user to the same interface
5regardless of which radio he or she uses.
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82. Installing Grig from Source
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10Note:
11Due to the extensive number of changes in version 0.4, you are strongly
12encouraged to remove any pre 0.4 release of grig before installing this one.
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14Assuming that you have obtained and unpacked a source distribution, you can
15install grig by typing the following (in the top level source directory):
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17autoreconf -i
18./configure
19make
20make install (as root)
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22If you get any error messages during 'configure', you are likely to be missing
23some of the required libraries. These are:
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25gtk+-2.0 at least version 2.12.0
26gthread-2.0 at least version 2.14.0
27hamlib at least version 1.2.8
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29Please note, that you also need the so-called development packages which
30contain the necessary header files.
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32If you are already familiar with this kind of installation process, you may
33want to fine tune the build and install. You can do this by specifying various
34command line argument to the 'configure' script. See 'configure --help' for
35details.
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37If you obtained the grig sources from the CVS repository, you have to run the
38'autogen.sh' script instead of the 'configure' sript. Any command line argument
39you would like to pass to 'configure' can be passed to 'autogen.sh' as well.
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41Once you have installed grig you can get a brief overview of its usage by
42reading the manual page. A brief overview of the comamnd line options is also
43printed when typing 'grig --help'
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463. Getting Support
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48If you encounter any problems using grig you are welcome to ask for support on
49the mailing list or user forums. You can find them on the Groundstation project
50page at SourceForge:
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52http://sourceforge.net/projects/groundstation
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