[Hackrf-dev] ubuntu 14.04lts

[Donald Pupecki]

Well,

Heres an argument for just doing it from source. I made a little script
that builds gqrx and gnuradio with support for hackrf, uhd, and rtlsdr on
14.04lts.

I highly encourage anyone who wants to use it to not just run it but open
it up and copy/paste the lines into a terminal so you see the process. It's
written such that it avoids any real need to know bash to use. All the
commands are just as if you would have typed them into a terminal yourself.

I included some commented out lines on the bottom that should show you how
to uninstall or update.

And lastly... it's not very robust, in favor of simplicity, so I wouldn't
try to rerun it without uninstalling and then deleting the SDR directory it
created. It should be considered more like a how to that happens to be
executable.

Hope someone finds it useful.

https://github.com/Flamewires/u14lts-gr-build/blob/master/build.sh
On Jul 7, 2015 5:59 PM, "Paul Connolly" <eeipcy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Either way is fine, just choose one and stick to it. Me personalty I use
> packages, but I re-pointed my Debian machine from wheezy to jessie, so I
> at the cost of being behind on security updates (machine is not networked)
> I'm slightly closer to the cutting edge, but still behind  using
> ppa:gqrx/(releases and snapshots), mostly because I did not know that it
> existed when I set the machine.
>
> packages
> -------------
> pros:
> Easy to install (
> https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager
> )
> Fast to install
> Easy to update (sudo apt-get update)
> Fast to update
> cons:
> Can lag behind the cutting edge of changes to the source code ( releases,
> but maybe not snapshots )
> In theory a malicious person could own your machine, but the same is true
> from an OS distributor.
>
> pybombs
> pros:
> Works on more Linux distributions
> At the cutting edge of changes to the source code
> Easy to install ( http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki )
> Easy to update (./pybombs update)
> More secure since you have built the binaries, no  need to trust that the
> package binaries are not malicious (99.999999999% of the time, not an
> issue).
> cons:
> Always at the cutting edge of changes to the source code
> Slower to install and update - compiling all the source code into binaries
> takes time
>
>
> On 07/07/2015 22:06, tokens at myranch.com wrote:
>
> There have been several suggestions as to how to install. What are the pros and cons of the methods. I am Linux illiterate so please be explicit.
>
> Thank you all for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Al
>
>
>
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