Although Radio Mobile was initially developed for Windows, Radio Mobile can work in a Linux environment using Wine. Specially for the use of Wine, Radio Mobile is optimized by Roger Coudé without lossing functionality.

This How-to is a best-practise on how to install Radio Mobile using Wine in a Linux environment and some aditional tricks and tips.

This How-to is intended for those already familiar with running Radio Mobile on a Windows system. Those installing Radio Mobile for the first time are advised to see the instructions for installing on a windows environment and get known to Radio Mobile first.

The installation of Radio Mobile was succesfull on UBUNTU 10.04.2 LTS and Wine 1.0.1.

This How-to is based on information publiced by:

• Mark A. Dods VK3XMU (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~madods/notes/rmdwine.htm),
• VIAS (http://www.vias.org/wirelessnetw/wndw_05_08_05.html),
• WINEhq forum (http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=580&sid=b477dd9252e9afcff106ab4164902614),
• Remko, PE1MEW.

How does Wine affect Radio Mobile operation?

Because of the differences between a complete Windos environment and Wine some functionalities in Radio Mobile are lost while using Wine.

What does work?

• Most local operations including:
  • Generating maps from local height data
  • Plotting unit locations and predicting propagation between them
  • Generating coverage plots
• Merging map with data from from Toporama Canada
• Monitoring an Internet APRS feed and plotting station locations
• TX-RX Multicast transmission
• Auto updates of Radio Mobile

What does NOT work?

• Retrieving data from the Internet via ftp:
  Notably:
  • SRTM files
• Retrieving data from the internet via http and cgi scripts.
  Notably:
  • LANDSAT,
  • MAPPOINT,
  • Terraserver USA data

These problems appear to be due to the Wine version of wininet.dll behaving differently to the Windows version. Hopefully as Wine is developed, the problems will disappear.