[Leaplist] Kubuntu for Hamcation

[Tom Parker]

On February 6, 2007, John Simpson wrote:

> first question. what repositories did you add to the mix in order to  
> add the ham radio programs?

I added all of the Ubuntu sponsored repositories at http://packages.ubuntu.com/.  The everything under edgy and edgy-backports was added.  I also installed Automatix2 and ran it so it would add its repositories.  I did not let Automatix install anything other than that.  This way after the install they can be added easily by the end-user.  I installed all of the Ham Radio section as shown here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/hamradio/

> second question (and this is for anybody on the list, not just tom.)  
> if the repository doesn't already have binary packages for other  
> architectures (i.e. powerpc) then i'll have to grab source packages  
> and build my own binary packages from those. does anybody know how to  
> do this under debian/ubuntu? (i.e. what's the debian equivalent of  
> "rpmbuild --rebuild blah.src.rpm")

I think all of the packages in the Ham Radio section have a PowerPC port available.  I've never had to build from a source package, but I believe the knowledge you seek is here: http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/p/apt_src