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
(at your option) any later version.

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.

Installation and running

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 using:

make install

Note that sudo may also be needed here for system-wide installation. 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.

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 (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. This library must be built manually to enable Hamlib support. As per the instructions on the Hamlib mailing list, 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

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