Latest Winlink version requires .NET v4.0

[KD2ROS]

After a Wine upgrade requiring a Wine re-install (a Box86 and/or Wine update/upgrade always require a Winelink re-install) I ran the Winelink install command line and after it installed Winlink, it threw this error...

Apparently, the new version of Winlink Express that was issued yesterday, requires .NET v4.0...and without it I am dead in the water...

Please note that I am in no way a programming expert, so please do not waste time pointing out my ignorance...just reporting an issue and trying to learn how to move forward from the replies here...

Erik and all who have helped him get Winelink out for us to use....Thank you!

[WheezyE]

Thanks for letting me know. I had seen that the new beta versions of RMS Express required .net 4.6 but I didn’t think that beta would go live so soon. I’ll have to experiment a bit with that. I think winetricks can install .net 4.6 but it takes a really long time.

I’ve been working with madewokherd, who makes wine-mono, and they got wine-mono working better with RMS Express (though ARDOP still has connection issues). You could try installing wine-devel 6.19 with mono in the meantime instead of .net. I know that’s complicated but just trying to help in the short term while I think about the best workaround with the script.

73 KI7POL

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 6:17 AM KD2ROS @.***> wrote:

After a Wine upgrade requiring a Wine re-install (a Box86 and/or Wine update/upgrade always require a Winelink re-install) I ran the Winelink install command line and after it installed Winlink, it threw this error...

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Apparently, the new version of Winlink Express that was issued yesterday, requires .NET v4.0...and without it I am dead in the water...

Please note that I am in no way a programming expert, so please do not waste time pointing out my ignorance...just reporting an issue and trying to learn how to move forward from the replies here...

Erik and all who have helped him get Winelink out for us to use....Thank you!

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[WheezyE]

After attempting to install .NET 4.6 with BOX86_NOBANNER=1 winetricks --force dotnet46 I still get the freeze I used to get when I was first testing things. I’ll see if another version of wine might work - but I might actually just switch the script over to using wine-mono instead of dotnet for now. This will make ARDOP not functional, but VARA should work. Would that be ok? I’ll try to get ARDOP/.NET4.6 up and running some time in the next week or so

[KD2ROS]

That would be great! I do not really use ardop, mainly VARA, VARA fm and packet…I would like to use ardop in the future though…

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 After attempting to install .NET 4.6 with BOX86_NOBANNER=1 winetricks --force dotnet46 I still get the freeze I used to get when I was first testing things. I’ll see if another version of wine might work - but I might actually just switch the script over to using wine-mono instead of dotnet for now. This will make ARDOP not functional, but VARA should work. Would that be ok? I’ll try to get ARDOP/.NET4.6 up and running some time in the next week or so

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[WheezyE]

No worries - yeah, ARDOP_Win.exe should be implementable in future versions of wine-mono, though I'm currently stumped where its wine-mono bug is.

After looking into it, this may take a little longer to fix, but I think I should have something in the next few days. Apologies for the delay. You might try downgrading RMS Express in the meantime too.

[WheezyE]

Just small updates: Wine-mono seems to be working ok for VARA, but the updated version of RMS Express seems to be causing a new emulation error in box86. I've submitted a bug report to Seb, who makes box86. We'll have to see what he says.

It looks like downgrading to a version of RMS Express prior to 1.5.41.0 is the best option for now (re-installing Winelink and then choosing not to update RMS Express when it prompts you).

[WheezyE]

I was able to work around the emulation error. Things should work again now (except for ARDOP for now).

VARA HF & VARA FM should load. Telnet seems to work (though I'm not sure if I missed a telnet message somehow).

Thank you again for letting me know about the RMS Express .NET 4.6 beta being pushed to the main releases. I didn't expect that to happen so soon. I'm going to close this ticket, but feel free to post here again if anything seems off and I'll re-open this ticket.

73, KI7POL