Copyright (C) 2013-2017 Christian Thomas Jacobs.

    This file is part of PyQSO.

    PyQSO is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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    PyQSO is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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PyQSO
=====

PyQSO is a contact logging tool for amateur radio operators.

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Installation and running
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Assuming that the current working directory is PyQSO's base directory (the directory that the `Makefile` is in), PyQSO can be run without installation by issuing the following command in the terminal:

    python3 bin/pyqso

If the `pip3` package manager is available on your system then PyQSO can be installed system-wide using:

    sudo make install

Once installed, the following command will run PyQSO:

    pyqso

Documentation
-------------

The PyQSO documentation is stored in the `docs` directory. It can be built with the following command:

    make docs

which will produce an HTML version of the documentation in `docs/build/html` that can be opened in a web browser.

Alternatively, a ready-built version of the PyQSO documentation can be found on [Read the Docs](http://pyqso.readthedocs.io/).

Dependencies
------------

PyQSO depends on the following Debian packages:

* gir1.2-gtk-3.0
* python3
* python3-gi-cairo (for log printing purposes)

The following extra packages are necessary to fully enable the grey line tool and the plotting of logbook statistics:

* python3-matplotlib (version 1.3.0 or later)
* python3-mpltoolkits.basemap
* python3-numpy
* libxcb-render0-dev
* python3-cairocffi
* [geocoder](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geocoder) (installable with `pip3` and used for QTH lookups)

The following extra package is necessary to build the documentation:

* python3-sphinx

There currently does not exist a Python 3-compatible Debian package for [Hamlib](http://www.hamlib.org). This library must be built manually to enable Hamlib support. As per the instructions on the [Hamlib mailing list](https://sourceforge.net/p/hamlib/mailman/message/35692744/), run the following commands in the Hamlib root directory (you may need to run `sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool` beforehand):

    export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
    autoreconf --install
    ./configure --with-python-binding
    make
    sudo make install

You will also need to append the Hamlib `bindings` and `bindings/.libs` directories to the `PYTHONPATH`:

    export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/hamlib/bindings:/path/to/hamlib/bindings/.libs

Contact
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If you have any comments or questions about PyQSO please send them via email to Christian Jacobs, M0UOS, at <christian@christianjacobs.uk>.