[amsat-bb] FoxTelem uninstall/re-install

[Burns Fisher]

No apologies necessary from you either.  I'm glad you found it!

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 3:32 PM Roy Dean via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> >
> > In any case, if the startup error tells you where the file is that is
> > missing, creating the directory is probably the easiest fix. If this does
> > help, please contact me privately with a screen shot and more
> > details. Sorry for the trouble! 73, Burns WB1FJ
>
>
> Burns,
>
> First of all, no apology is necessary.   Had I actually thought it would be
> as easy as a hidden ./FoxTelem folder in my user root directory, I wouldn't
> have asked.   I found the setup files and removed them, and then just
> attempted to launch FoxTelem as usual and it went through the normal setup
> stuff that I was expecting.
>
> The original location for the logfiles was in a older version of FoxTelem's
> run folder - which I had deleted.   So now I've created a special logfile
> folder which will never get thrown out (like the baby with the bathwater).
>
> This was not a "Fox-in-a-Box" install, only because I've been running this
> pi for a few years and I don't want to add all the other junk that's on
> it.   So the current install was downloaded directly from
> http://amsat.us/FoxTelem/Linux/.
>
> Thanks for the help, and I apologize for not digging a little further (I
> had actually checked a bunch of the system config folders for just such a
> folder - I guess I dug too deep without scratching the surface first).
>
> --Roy
> K3RLD
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