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digipup.iso again available on this site and on two mirrors. You can help to reduce the bandwidth load on this site and the two mirrors by creating your own digipup from "pet" install files if you already have a Puppy Live CD iso image. Follow the instructions below if you are able to build the new Live CD using the smaller downloads.

Puppy Rev	Description	Download	Size	md5 checksum file
2.14	digipup-1.34 on w1hkj.com (US)	digipup-1.342.iso	98 M	digipup-1.342.md5
2.14	digipup-1.33 mirror at SP9P (Euro)	digipup-1.342.iso	97 M	digipup-1.342.md5

Current build number for digipup ==> 0703141200Z

Create your own digipup if you already have a Puppy Live CD iso image.

Please follow these instructions to create your own Puppy with the W1HKJ ham software suite:

Download the latest Puppy iso image from Puppy OS or Puppy Linux.
Burn your CD using the instructions given on the puppy site.
Reboot the computer from the Live Puppy CD

Install the following "pet's" - if you are running Puppy you can simply click on the link and the "petget" program will install the program and all supporting files.

Pet installation file	Size
fldigi 1.34 pet	2.4 M
fl_logbook 2.3 pet pet	140 K
geoid 1.10 - pet	106 K

Restart the window manager to initialize the menu system with the Fldigi, Logbook and Geoid entries. Click "Menu/Shutdown/Restart JWM". You will find the entries on the "Network" menu heirarchy.

Fldigi ham digital modem
Geoid geodesic calculator
Logbook Hamradio log

Open the Rox viewer in the Home directory (the home icon on the desktop). Click on "my-applications" and then "bin". You should find three new executable items in this directory, /root/my-applications/bin - fldigi, fl_logbook and geoid. You can assign a nice 48x48 png image to each of the executables.

open a 2nd instance of the Rox filer (click on the Home icon)
in the 2nd Rox filer change directory to /usr/share/midi-icons

this is the default directory that petget places the 48x48 images

right click on one of the executables, fldigi for example
select Set Icon... from the popup menu
drag the icon, fldigi48.png from the /usr/share/midi-icons directory and drop it on the Set icon dialog box where indicated
repeat for fl_logbook using the logbook48.png icon
repeat for geoid using the geoid48.png icon

The executable files in the ~/my-applications/bin directory should now be shown with the icon images that you selected.

If you want to create a desktop item for each of these you can do so with a very simple step

Drag the executable from the ~/my-applications/bin directory and drop it on the desktop. That creates a link complete with a nice icon image on the desktop that allows you to single click on it to execute the program.

XML files for fldigi rigCAT

Open the ~/my-applications directory in your Rox filer. Then click on the directory xmls (that was added when petget installed fldigi). Click on xmlarchives.html; SeaMonkey should open with the html file in view. Read and follow the instructions contained therein.

Hamlib shared libraries

Open the ~/my-applications directory in your Rox filer. Then click on the directory lib which was also added when petget installed fldigi. You should see 24 files that comprise the complete hamlib shared lib system. Do not remove or move any of these files unless you are uninstalling fldigi. You need them to be present even if you do not use the hamlib interface to your transceiver. You can see with shared libraries that fldigi depends on by opening a terminal window and cd'ing to ~/my-applications/bin. Then execute "ldd fldigi" and you will see that the petget system has placed the hamlib*so files in a location that is in the search path for shared libs.

Final Installation

When everything is working as you expect you can either save your changes to a file, back to the CD, or you might want to remaster the ISO image. All of these are available either from the Puppy Menu system or when you exit Puppy. If you choose to remaster I recommend using the "Dougal enhanced remaster CD" item found on the Setup menu hierarchy.

New - Kachina CAT

digipup now comes configured with the Kachina CAT program installed and ready to use. A convenience for the owners of the KC505DSP, Indian.