
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 If your rigs uses the physical serial port, replace ttyUSB0 with your actual port.(ttyS0, etc). If you need multiple ports, change the number after ‘COM’. We create a link from our port to COM1 in the dosdevices folder. If you get prompted to download and install wine-mono or wine-gecko, do it.Īdd the COM1 port for our rig. winetricks win7 winetricks sound=alsa winetricks -q dotnet35sp1 NET 3.5 sp1 quietly into Wine (takes a long time). Set our Windows version to Win 7 (RMS Express does not support XP), our sound driver to ALSA (works better with our USB soundcards), and install Microsoft. cd ~/Downloads wget sudo chmod +x winetricks sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin/winetricks The winetricks file in the repository is a few versions back and has a bug with Wine 1.8. Sudo apt-get install wine-mono4.5.6 wine-mono4.5.6:i386 sudo apt-get install gnome-exe-thumbnailer sudo dpkg -add-architecture i386 export WINEARCH=win32 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.8 wine-gecko2.40 wine-gecko2.40:i386 Set the architecture to 32bit for Wine and add the official Wine repository. This will remove any installed wine applications. If you have Wine installed, remove it and delete your.

sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USERNAME sudo usermod -a -G tty $USERNAME sudo usermod -a -G audio $USERNAMEĬlear out your old wine configuration. This is needed for accessing your USB connected rigs. This guide used Linux Mint 17.3 on Cinnamon, but should work on any Ubuntu based system.įirst, setup your username with permissions to access the serial ports. RMS Express is a HAM program that transfers email over amateur radio.

#Download winlink express how to
Since I couldn’t find any documentation on how to do this, I’ll post my how to here. HAM is my hobby and I recently switched to using Linux Mint 17 as my main workstation.
