Instalasi PSKmail

Referensi: http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/Server

The PSKmail server files

fldigi a multimode digital modem program for linux arq.pm a PERL module containing the common primitives for the arq protocol rflinkserver.pl the program containing the server protocol, the POP client, the SMTP client and the internet document server pskmailrc.pl The configuration file user_db.pl the database maintenance program rflink_users.db the PSKmail user database (empty, 1 TEMPLATE)

Current version is pskmail_server-0.7.1

Download the archive at http://sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pub/linux/ham/pskmail/

Install

Briefly the install procedure is as follows

  1. Get fldigi and install it
  2. Get the latest server archive and unpack it in your home folder
  3. Get necessary dependencies through cpan and your distro package manager
  4. Edit pskmailrc.pl and set your callsign and position etc
  5. Move word_table and cbh_code.pl to the hidden folder ~/.cbh
  6. Install the elinks browser, gpsd and libhamlib tools from your package manager
  7. For UBUNTU install scripts for the libraries and the program are included in the archive

Here follows detailed descriptions for some popular distros.

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

The install procedure of the pskmail server has been divided in two scripts:

   * libinstall.sh to install necessary libraries and fldigi (2.05)
   * install.sh to install the latest version

Installing libraries and Fldigi

You need to be connected to the internet to install the following packages: libportaudio2, libhamlib2 and fldigi.

and the needed libraries: libgtk2-gladexml-perl, libdigest-crc-perl, gpsd, Net::GPSD, hamlib-utilities

To install them just run the script from the installation directory:

cd pskmail-x.x sudo ./libinstall.sh answer 'Y' to the questions...

Installing pskmail

To install the newest version run the install.sh script from the installation directory as root:

sudo ./install.sh

The install script copies the executables to their proper location and makes a directory ~/.pskmail which contains your files and directories.

Run the server Do pskmail_server in a terminal.