I'm running Linux Mint 22.3, and VarAC works fine, and has been for years, now running 13.2.7 with Wine 11.0. However, I find that the icons in the Tag column are not properly displayed. I have installed emoji fonts in Wine, and the emojis do properly display when sending/receiving emojis with another station in the message windows. Here is a screen capture showing the icon display failure:
73,
-Joe-
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Here's the info from the terminal window:
Unhandled Exception:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies.
do you run it in a wine instance?
have you installed fonts?
how exactly do you try to start it?
Hi,
I'd like to share my experience installing VARA HF and VarAC on a fresh Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon system using Wine.
Because VARA/VarAC behave slightly differently depending on whether a 32-bit or 64-bit Wine prefix is used, I documented the procedures separately in two PDF guides - One for Wine32 and another for Wine64.
Hi Alister,
Great to see that you were successful with the installation—and even created a set of installation scripts which is fantastic!
I’d definitely love to use them for my future re-installations. It would be great if you could send them to ji1bqw.gene@gmail.com
Thanks! Gene
App opens, connects with FLRig, works with the soundcard
Everything seems fine until a connection is established. Then the VarAC window closes leaving VARA HF running with an active QSO. I just can't interact with it since the app closed.
I tried turning down the volume to many different levels. When I turn down the volume to the point where a connection is not made, it does not crash.
I tried upgrading to all the latest versions, it still blows chunks.
I tried looking for a log file to post, but I could not find it. I'm a newbie with Wine. I've used Linux for several years.
I'm running Ubuntu Mate. It's a fairly recent version.
Turning off the narration sounds fixed the issue, or maybe got around it. I made several QSOs with it. There's some other issue that gives an error message but that's for another report.
73
Steve
This is the VarAC academy graduate "STAR" that for some reason is not visible on Linux. This is why on Linux I replaced all the emojis with letters but this was was left un-handled. I wll take care of it on the next version.
Thank you for the heads-up
Irad