Victoria AU has gone into lockdown again for the next 6 weeks and I am bored.
Very bored so I decided to load an Ubuntu 20 image for VMWare and follow the above instructions.
From when I went looking for the Ubuntu image took exactly 2 hours to have it up and running.
piaware.service - FlightAware ADS-B uploader
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/piaware.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-08-06 01:04:30 EDT; 1min 36s ago
Docs: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
Main PID: 930 (piaware)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 4624)
Memory: 26.1M
CGroup: /system.slice/piaware.service
├─ 930 /usr/bin/piaware -p /run/piaware/piaware.pid -plainlog -statusfile /run/piaware/status.json
├─1243 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090 --net-bo-ipaddr localhost --net-bo-port 30005 --stdout --lat -37.869 --lon 145.039
└─1326 /usr/lib/piaware/helpers/fa-mlat-client --input-connect localhost:30005 --input-type dump1090 --results beast,connect,localhost:30104 --results beast,listen,30105 --results ext_bases>
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Using UDP transport to 70.42.6.156 port 5276
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Listening for Beast-format results connection on port 30105
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Listening for Extended Basestation-format results connection on port 30106
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Route MTU changed to 1500
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Input connected to localhost:30005
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Input format changed to BEAST, 12MHz clock
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: piaware received a message from dump1090-fa!
Aug 06 01:04:35 ubun2004 piaware[930]: mlat-client(1326): Beast-format results connection with 127.0.0.1:30104: connection established
Aug 06 01:04:46 ubun2004 piaware[930]: piaware has successfully sent several msgs to FlightAware!
Aug 06 01:05:05 ubun2004 piaware[930]: 9 msgs recv'd from dump1090-fa; 9 msgs sent to FlightAware
It was a bit tedious doing a cut and paste on each line but it seems to be working OK.
With the lockdown and ban on recreational flying there are almost no planes.
This is the Ubuntu VMware image I used
Works well thanks @abcd567
S.