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flnet

Net control operator's list — who checked in, in what order

What it does

Keeps the roster for a directed net: a database of regular members with callsign, name and location, a check-in list built as stations call in, ordering and re-ordering of who is waiting, and a printed or exported record afterwards.

Why you would want it

Running a net means tracking twenty callsigns in the order they arrived while also operating, and paper falls apart the moment somebody re-checks-in or has traffic. This is the tool net control operators actually use, and its member database means a regular's name and location fill themselves in from the callsign.

Before it will work

Nothing to start; the member database is built as you go or imported. Integration with fllog and fldigi is over XML-RPC and is optional.

How it installs

  • source (autotools) from https://w1hkj.org/files/flnet/flnet-7.5.0.tar.gz
  • build dependencies: build-essential, pkg-config, libfltk1.3-dev
  • Build dependencies are MEASURED, not copied. Built in a Debian 13 container on 2026-08-28 with build-essential, pkg-config and libfltk1.3-dev and nothing else: configure exits 0, make exits 0, and the binary appears. AHRL lists extra packages for some of these (libpng-dev and libxft-dev for flcluster, libsamplerate0-dev for flnet); they are not needed, because libfltk1.3-dev already pulls what the build uses. This is the same over-specification the fldigi manifest records for libportaudio-ocaml-dev. The sha256 is ours. Upstream publishes checksums for its Windows installers only -- w1hkj.org/files/sha256vals.txt lists .exe files and no source tarballs -- so this digest was computed from the tarball fetched from the project's own site on 2026-08-28. It pins the exact bytes that were reviewed and built, which is the guarantee actually on offer; it is not an upstream signature and this manifest does not imply one.

Binaries this produces:

  • src/flnet

Known problems

Built for directed nets with a controller; it is not a contest log and not a general station log. The member database is a local file -- back it up, because for a long-running net it represents years of accumulated detail. Not packaged on any target. Debian carries libflxmlrpc-dev at 0.1.4 and this build asks pkg-config for flxmlrpc >= 1.0.1, so the system library is NOT used: configure falls back to the copy bundled in the tarball and its summary line reads "Have flxmlrpc library ....... internal lib". Measured, not inferred. Installing libflxmlrpc-dev alongside would change nothing, which is why it is not a build dependency here.

Keeping it current

  • probe: none
  • strategy: rebuild
  • W1HKJ releases irregularly and announces on the linuxham list rather than through a tagged repository, so there is nothing to probe automatically. Check w1hkj.org/files/flnet/ when something else in the suite moves.

Where to get help with the software itself

The W1HKJ suite. The linuxham group on groups.io is where questions are answered. Note that Debian's Homepage field for the packaged members of this suite points at w1hkj.com, which now redirects to an unrelated site -- .org is the project.

Source: catalog/packages/flnet.yaml