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I don't even know what this tool is used for that was so long ago.
Literally years.  No user should be expected to 1). Guess correctly where
the default config is & 2). No one should be expected to copy it in the
first place.  Rule of Least surprise:  if it can be automated, automate
it.  In this case, the cp line should both be 1). In the post-install
script in the package file 2 2). In the 'make install' script.  Anything
short of this is simply considered sub-par Unix development UNLESS it
generates the config (or asks user to sudo for it) when it can't find the
file.
On Sep 22, 2014 9:41 PM, "williamts99" <661963@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paul Sladen almost had it!
>
> If you don't have osspd installed, go ahead and install it.
> sudo apt-get install osspd
>
> If you don't yet have the .xdemorserc file, go ahead and copy it from
> /usr/share/doc/xdemorse/ to your users home directory.
> cp -a /usr/share/doc/xdemorse/xdemorserc ~/.xdemorserc
>
> If you aren't controlling a FT847 OR FT857 transceiver than change that
> option to NONE in ~/.xdemorserc
> sed -i -e 's/^FT847$/NONE/' ~/.xdemorserc
>
> Then you can run xdemorse and it should run fine, at least it is for me
> in 14.04
>
> Best Regards
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661963
>
> Title:
>   xdemorse is useless out of the box
>
> Status in “xdemorse” package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: xdemorse
>
>   No man entry, no HTML or txt docs anywhere, no license, & the worst
>   offender, no default .xdemorserc file, rendering the program
>   inoperable.  Either fix the package or remove it from the repository.
>
>   Ubuntu 10.10
>   xdemorse 1.3-5
>
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Title:
  xdemorse is useless out of the box

Status in “xdemorse” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: xdemorse

  No man entry, no HTML or txt docs anywhere, no license, & the worst
  offender, no default .xdemorserc file, rendering the program
  inoperable.  Either fix the package or remove it from the repository.

  Ubuntu 10.10
  xdemorse 1.3-5

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