[wsjt-devel] Heads up to Raspberry Pi users - was Re: WSJT-X 2.3.0 GA Release

[Bill S. <g4...@cl...>]

On 01/02/2021 17:54, Joe Taylor wrote:
>
> The WSJT Development Group is pleased to announce the general 
> availability (GA) release of WSJT-X Version 2.3.0.  A summary of new 
> features can be found in the WSJT-X 2.3 User Guide here:
>
> https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.3.0_en.html#NEW_FEATURES 
>
>
> You may also wish to consult the Release Notes:
>
> https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/Release_Notes.txt
>
> ... where the first several sections at the top contain a list of all 
> important program changes since the GA release of WSJT-X 2.2.
>
> Upgrading from earlier versions of WSJT-X should be seamless. There is 
> no need to uninstall a previous version or move any files.
>
> Links to installation packages for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh are 
> available here:
>
> https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
>
> You can also download the packages from our SourceForge site:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/files/
> It may take a short time for the SourceForge site to be updated.
>
> You may be interested to know that, somewhat unusually, a release 
> candidate for Version 2.4.0 of WSJT-X will also be made available very 
> soon.  Its main new feature is a new mode called Q65 with unique 
> capabilities for EME and scatter propagation modes.
>
> WSJT-X is licensed under the terms of Version 3 of the GNU General 
> Public License (GPL).  Development of this software is a cooperative 
> project to which many amateur radio operators have contributed.  If 
> you use our code, please have the courtesy to let us know about it.  
> If you find bugs or make improvements to the code, please report them 
> to us in a timely fashion.
>
> We hope you will enjoy using WSJT-X Version 2.3.0.
>
>      -- 73 from Joe, K1JT; Bill, G4WJS; Steve, K9AN; and Nico, IV3NWV
>              for the entire WSJT Development Group

Hi all,

Raspberry Pi users will probably find that this latest WSJT-X release 
will give an error on startup with a message about the en_US.UTF-8 
locale not being found. This is because a default install of Raspberry 
Pi OS has very few locales installed. This is easily rectified by the 
following two lines executed on a terminal:

sudo sed -i "s/# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/g" /etc/locale.gen sudo locale-gen

Alternatively you can install locales from a GUI using:

sudo dpk-reconfigure locales

Then check the en_US.UTF-8 one and click Ok.

This locale is needed for the new diagnostic logging facility to convert 
wide character strings to a suitable 8-bit encoding in log files.

73
Bill
G4WJS.