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D-Rats program for D-Star Ham Radios
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MobaXterm install of D-rats investigation #274

Closed wb8tyw closed 1 year ago

wb8tyw commented 1 year ago

The MobaXterm free edition has a clause that it can be uses on computers used for commercial use, so a version can be installed on any Windows version it supports.

This product includes a Debian like linux environment that can be customized.

This ticket is for investigating if a script can be used to install a working D-Rats client.

wb8tyw commented 1 year ago

The MobaXterm defaults to opening a terminal to its own Cygwin installation and uses a package manager that emulates apt to install packages.

It looks like getting MobaXterm to work will be similar to getting a Cygwin install to work.

While MobaXterm uses Debian apt install, Cygwin uses RedHat convention for package names.

Cygwin is missing many of the pre-built packages that D-Rats depends on, some some will need to be fetched from PyPi via pip. These packages will be installed into /usr/local/pypi and a PYTHONPATH will be needed to access them.

maurizioandreotti commented 1 year ago

can we close this?