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I'm installing everything I can find in Synaptic on GNU Radio right now. Then I'll go back and try the cmake ../ from the second set of install instructions and we'll see where we're at.

Yep, got ALL of Boost installing right now. Once it's done I'll try to finish up with the second set of instructions and get that out of the way then we can move on from there. Also, Gqrx will be my Front End GUI go get me into the dongle, right? Ok, looks like I'll need GNU Radio installed to get osmosdr up and running. It failed at cmake ../ and gave me all of this stuff: -- Build type not specified: defaulting to release. -- Extracting version information from git describe... -- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries... -- Boost version: 1.49.0 -- Found the following Boost libraries: -- thread -- system CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:151 (find_package): By not providing "FindGnuradio.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Gnuradio", but CMake did not find one. Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Gnuradio" (requested version 3.7.0) with any of the following names: GnuradioConfig.cmake gnuradio-config.cmake Add the installation prefix of "Gnuradio" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "Gnuradio_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If "Gnuradio" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed. -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- Could NOT find GNURADIO_IQBALANCE (missing: GNURADIO_IQBALANCE_LIBRARIES GNURADIO_IQBALANCE_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- Could NOT find UHD (missing: UHD_LIBRARIES UHD_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- gnuradio-uhd not found. -- Could NOT find GNURADIO_UHD (missing: GNURADIO_UHD_LIBRARIES GNURADIO_UHD_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- gnuradio-fcd not found. -- Could NOT find GNURADIO_FCD (missing: GNURADIO_FCD_LIBRARIES GNURADIO_FCD_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- gnuradio-fcdproplus not found. -- Could NOT find GNURADIO_FCDPP (missing: GNURADIO_FCDPP_LIBRARIES GNURADIO_FCDPP_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- libosmosdr not found. -- Found librtlsdr: /usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib/librtlsdr.so -- libmirisdr not found. -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- Could NOT find LIBHACKRF (missing: LIBHACKRF_LIBRARIES LIBHACKRF_INCLUDE_DIRS) -- libbladeRF not found. -- Could NOT find Doxygen (missing: DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:165 (message): GnuRadio Runtime required to build gr-osmosdr -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! At least I didn't get any Boost errors, LOL

Wow, hope you're ready to do a boat load of reading,LOL libasio-dev - cross-platform C++ library for network programming libasio-doc - cross-platform C++ library for network programming libboost-all-dev - Boost C++ Libraries development files (ALL) (default version) libboost-chrono-dev - C++ representation of time duration, time point, and clocks (default version) libboost-date-time-dev - set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts (default version) libboost-dbg - Boost C++ Libraries with debug symbols (default version) libboost-dev - Boost C++ Libraries development files (default version) libboost-doc - Boost.org libraries documentation (default version) libboost-filesystem-dev - filesystem operations (portable paths, iteration over directories, etc) in C++ (default version) libboost-graph-dev - generic graph components and algorithms in C++ (default version) libboost-graph-parallel-dev - generic graph components and algorithms in C++ (default version) libboost-iostreams-dev - 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Found 1 device(s): 0: Realtek, RTL2838UHIDIR, SN: 00000001 Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner Supported gain values (29): 0.0 0.9 1.4 2.7 3.7 7.7 8.7 12.5 14.4 15.7 16.6 19.7 20.7 22.9 25.4 28.0 29.7 32.8 33.8 36.4 37.2 38.6 40.2 42.1 43.4 43.9 44.5 48.0 49.6 Sampling at 2048000 S/s. No E4000 tuner found, aborting. So it's there but I'd like to get Boost so I can finish installing the second set of commands. Of course then were do we go from there, that's the million dollar question. Also there's nothing under my Applications folder to open a GUI for the SDR install. Is this something I'll have to install separate from the two sets of commands above?

sudo: rtl-sdr: command not found Ok, I feel totally stupid. Guess it'd help if I plug in the dongle. Let me start over and see what I end up with. Geeze, LOL Nope, still getting the same thing. command not found. Also with the second set of commands I get down to cmake ../ and get told that I need Boost. mkdir: cannot create directory `build': File exists darrell@linuxmonster1:~/gr-osmosdr$ cd build/ darrell@linuxmonster1:~/gr-osmosdr/build$ cmake ../ -- Build type not specified: defaulting to release. -- Extracting version information from git describe... -- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries... -- Could NOT find Boost CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:123 (message): Boost required to build gr-osmosdr How can I install Boost. sudo apt-get install boost or what?

Yep, it worked fine. That's from "/rtl-sdr/build$" that I did the make;sudo make install from that directory.

Got this: darrell@linuxmonster1:~/rtl-sdr/build$ cmake ../ -- Build type not specified: defaulting to release. -- Extracting version information from git describe... -- Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) -- Building with kernel driver detaching disabled, use -DDETACH_KERNEL_DRIVER=ON to enable -- Building for version: v0.5.2-23-g2c17 / 0.5git -- Using install prefix: /usr/local -- Configuring done -- Generating done -- Build files have been written to: /home/darrell/rtl-sdr/build So that means I'm still getting this: make: *** No rule to make target `install-udev-rules'. Stop.

sudo: rtl-sdr: command not found Let me try installing the second set of stuff. OK, in the second set of stuff I got down to the cmake ../ and got this: -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2 -- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.7.2 -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Build type not specified: defaulting to release. -- Found Git: /usr/bin/git (found version "1.7.10.4") -- Extracting version information from git describe... -- Configuring Boost C++ Libraries... -- Could NOT find Boost CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:123 (message): Boost required to build gr-osmosdr -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Cmake went in without a hitch once I corrected the spelling. git went in too. Ok, got all the way to the last line of the first set and on the last line I got this: make: *** No rule to make target `install-udev-rules'. Stop.

Command Not Found. Even tried it with "sudo" and it's a no go.

Ok, this stuff git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git cd rtl-sdr/ mkdir build cd build cmake ../ -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON make sudo make install sudo ldconfig sudo make install-udev-rules and: git clone git://git.osmocom.org/gr-osmosdr cd gr-osmosdr/ mkdir build cd build/ cmake ../ make sudo make install sudo ldconfig isn't working for some reason. Do I need to download a tarball or something first?

LOL, Ok, I know you meant "cmake" so I just went back in the thread and looked it up. I'm getting CMake installed, I'll install libusb-1.0.0-dev then I'll go back and install the other two things and we'll see where we're at in a few minutes. C ya' then.

Or a .quisk_conf.py file with the dongle configuration so Quisk was basically lost. Ok, so if we're going to go down this path then where should I start at so I don't bork anything.

Ok, should we start over with this path or should we try to follow a different one to get my SDR up and running?

I saw that but I've never had a problem wit any other Distro with UNetbootin before. Also, seeing the word "Windows" in the reading really turned me off to the idea, LOL. BackBox is no help, nothing SDR related in the Distro.

After installing Quisk from Synaptic in my clean Point Linux install it now won't work. Not sure what file(s) are missing that I had before that let it work. This is really starting to get complicated.

For the direct download and the torrent download I used UNetbootin to make "Live" USB stick and got loop errors when I tried to boot to it. The one install option I did get wouldn't let me partition my hard drive. Does Back Box(which is Ubuntu based and has a much easier installer) have any SDR programs pre-installed with the Distro?

I can download it from my package manager which makes it easy since I don't have to worry about dependencies or compiling anything BUT after download there's no .quisk_conf.py file to configure the dang thing. I did download the tarball and extracted it and they have config files in the extraction, not sure which one to use with my dongle though. I'd like to use something like Quisk that's easy to install but danged if I'm not having a fit over getting a configuration file set up. Can anyone give me some help on this OR is there another easy to install SDR program I should be looking at? I'm running Point Linux 2.2 which is Debian 7.2 Stable with MATE DE if that's any help since I'd need a .deb file if it's going to be a download. Thanks. P.S. I really think this is the one for me to use since it "works" when I click the icon, it's just I need the proper config file to get things working with the dongle.

Ok, so let's start totally fresh. I had to reinstall my Point Linux install so there's NOTHING SDR on my system at the moment. So, how do we go about getting something up and running so I can use my SDR Kit?

Well, Kali Linux is a bust. Can't get it to install right and I downloaded it from direct and bit torrent and neither one works. Ended up having to totally reinstall my Point Linux 2.2 Op System so I'm starting fresh at least.

I noticed that Kali Linux has a lot of SDR stuff straight out of the box for SDR. I wonder if it'd be a good Distro to run to play around with SDR? I'm going to re-do my Point Linux install since I love using it as my main, everyday Distro but I think I'll dual boot with Kali and use the pre-installed SDR stuff and see if I can get my SDR Kit working. Anyway, chime in with your favorite Distro to use for SDR.

I guess if push comes to shove I can dual boot with Kali Linux and use that for my SDR. It's suppose to have a lot of the tools already installed. I'm downloading it just in case.

Well, does anyone else want to jump in here and help take up were the others have left off? I'd really like to get this thing working if I could.

So how do I listen to something now? I get this "error" with Quisk when I click the "configure" button on the panel. Configuration file/home/darrell/.quisk_conf.py was not found Capture from sound card hw:0. Does that mean it's not finding the USB dongle or what? Also, thanks for all the help so far, we'll get this thing going if it's the last thing we do,LOL. Also, gqrx isn't install as far as I know because doing the apt-cache search gqrx just returns me to my $ prompt in Terminal.