Here is some tips for getting vara to load in bookworm and pi5, some interesting data is that you need to downgrade the kernel paging size and this did impact performance of wsjt decodes! interesting eh? These steps should work for a pi4 or pi5 as they are "manual install" of the ham-apps vs the wheezy script. If you would like to use wheezy today you will need to make this modification for pi3/4?as for Pi5 there is some current detection issues preventing wheezy from slipstreaming the apps in at the moment. so ...
Pi5 only bookworm 16K pagesize incompatible with wine/box (Dec42023)
?https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/107
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switch to 4k-page adding 'kernel=kernel8.img' to /boot/config.txt
?reboot
Otherwise To manually install VARA and WinLink on a Pi
Load up Pi-Apps via http://pi-apps.io
?wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash
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Use the Pi-Apps GUI navigate to Tools->Emulation
?install Box86 (also installs wine)
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Install DLL with winetricks by running "winetricks" from CLI
?press OK for 'default prefix'
?choose install a DLL or component
?Select some needed DLL and press OK to install
?comdlg32ocx, pdh-nt4, vb6run
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Download Vara, VarAC, WineLink
?Install them all, if you install VarAC first it will open the Vara Modem download page
?from CLI you can run with "wine setup.exe"
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I copy all the OCX files in VARA rather then set paths or register
?cp ~/.wine/drive_c/VARA/OCX/* ~/.wine/drive_c/VARA/
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hope you have success and some pi in your stocking, happy holidays :)
kelly
