Prerequisites for installation of KPSK

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Prerequisites for installation of KPSK

Hardware Requirements

  • Serial port available for keying transmitter.

  • Sound card with capability for changing sampling rate. See trouble shooting, inexact sampling rate. Also see Sound-How-To. Soundblaster soundcards are recommended.

Software Requirements

  • KDE v.3.0.1 or later -- this version will not work with KDE2. KPSK v.0.9.3 and earlier versions were designed for KDE2.x

  • Qt v.3.0.3 or later

  • BerkeleyDB v.3.1 or later (http://www.sleepycat.com). This application is packaged with most distributions, but may not be installed on your machine. The purpose of this application is to provide QSO logging capabilities.

Compilation of KPSK will require that your machine have a number of development packages installed. Each linux distribution usually has a relatively simple way of selecting and installing these packages. With Debian, use tasksel at the root prompt and install the development environment packages; use aptitude or dselect for others. With Mandrake, use Software Manager (rpmdrake) to select the Development RPMS. With Redhat, kpackage to select the RPMS.

In particular, you will need to ensure that you have: qt and qt-devel for Qt v.3.0.3 or later, kdelibs and kdelibs-devel for KDE 3.0.1 or later, zlib-devel, libjpeg, libjpeg-devel,libpng2 and libpng2-devel. NOTE: Before installing libpng2 packages, PLEASE check your system to determine if libpng2 or libpng3 is present; problems have been reported (with other applications) when libpng2 and libpng3 are present on the same machine. If you have or install these, your distro package handler will probably pick-up any other required dependencies.

Depending on how KDE 3 was installed on your machine, you may also require the libfam and libMesaGL packages.

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