Linux RMS Gateway

• To get a copy of the repository using git:

git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw

• or using wget to create a zipped tarball

# To create a tar zipped file, rmsgw.tgz
wget -O rmsgw.tgz https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw/tarball/master
# To create a directory with source files from the zipped tarball
wget -O - https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw/tarball/master | tar zxf

• NOTE: Installation & configuration scripts & notes live in n7nix/rmsgw

• Install AX.25 library & support utilities
• xutils-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libncurses5-dev

• AX.25 kernel support
• libax25 runtime
• python 2.7.9 or greater
• python-requests

• Currently (3/2017) RMS Gateway needs to be built from source
  • Goal to make it a Debian package

git clone https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/rmsgw
cd rmsgw

• Verify that directory /usr/local/etc/rmsgw does NOT exist and create a symbolic link to it.

ln -s /etc/rmsgw /usr/local/etc/rmsgw

• Do the build

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
# Install as root
sudo make install
# Now edit the config files in /etc/rmsgw

• There are some scripts that automate the process which does the following:
  • Download source as a zipped tarball.
  • Untar source
  • Build source
  • Install result
  • Edit config files

• Use a script, it's easier

• libax25 - runtime library
• ax25-tools - utilities
• ax25-apps - applications

• Charles Schuman K4GBB has excellent notes & install scripts for the Raspberry Pi here

  • (https://k4gbb.no-ip.org/docs/raspberry.html)

• The install script in n7nix/rmsgw uses Charles' script modified to include all the necessary steps from his notes here

  • (https://github.com/nwdigitalradio/n7nix/tree/master/rmsgw)