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g2_link and alma - success


 

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Hi There,

I haven't seen too much out there about people successfully installing g2_link alongside a new AlmaLinux install, but I wanted to share that I?successfully upgraded our local repeater (VY1RDS) this evening to AlmaLinux, the latest iCom gateway/dplus software, ircddb addon--and, just now, I had a working g2_link manually running with it as well I verified quickly by linking/unlinking to XRF reflectors, and verified I was getting though to the reflector.? I used the same binary package that I was using on CentOS.??

Over the next week, I plan to convert the services from the old format to systemd, and make things automatic (again, I was just running the g2_link manually this evening with a few script modifications) as well as make sure I can get the FreeStar dashboard up and running, etc.? I hope to have this all done before mid-September, but if I do not get around to it (that day job of mine and kids sure do take up a lot of my time), I will put this work on pause until early October as I am away the last two weeks of September with no communications.

Before I work on converting the services over / documenting everything that I did to get g2_link working (which didn't involve too much modification) I wanted to verify that no one else has already done / shared this?? Based on my preliminary searching, I have not found anything along these lines.

Rob, VY1RG


 

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That is great news Rob. I only had some old CPU based machines here that Alma 9 would not load on. So I had started to manually edit the script… minor items. The one potential issue was Alma did not have an init.d directory so the startup piece was one issue to be addressed. Ramesh and I discussed the overall package and thought it would be fine… since Alma is pretty much CentOS anyways.

Nice job and thanks for the notice.

Has anyone addressed the g2_link startup piece? Or had any success like Rob?

Terry

On Aug 30, 2024, at 1:45?AM, Robert Gillis <robert@...> wrote:

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Hi There,

I haven't seen too much out there about people successfully installing g2_link alongside a new AlmaLinux install, but I wanted to share that I?successfully upgraded our local repeater (VY1RDS) this evening to AlmaLinux, the latest iCom gateway/dplus software, ircddb addon--and, just now, I had a working g2_link manually running with it as well I verified quickly by linking/unlinking to XRF reflectors, and verified I was getting though to the reflector.? I used the same binary package that I was using on CentOS.??

Over the next week, I plan to convert the services from the old format to systemd, and make things automatic (again, I was just running the g2_link manually this evening with a few script modifications) as well as make sure I can get the FreeStar dashboard up and running, etc.? I hope to have this all done before mid-September, but if I do not get around to it (that day job of mine and kids sure do take up a lot of my time), I will put this work on pause until early October as I am away the last two weeks of September with no communications.

Before I work on converting the services over / documenting everything that I did to get g2_link working (which didn't involve too much modification) I wanted to verify that no one else has already done / shared this?? Based on my preliminary searching, I have not found anything along these lines.

Rob, VY1RG

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Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin