[Hackrf-dev] Installing hackrf pacakge - simple question PLEASE !

[Jerry]

Thank you very much.  I thought the “prerequisite” command instruction would set all of that up.  Now makes sense.

 

Jerry

 

 

From: Mike Carden [mailto:mike.carden at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 8:45 PM
To: Jerry <jsternmd at att.net>
Cc: hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com
Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] Installing hackrf pacakge - simple question PLEASE !

 

 

 

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Jerry <jsternmd at att.net <mailto:jsternmd at att.net> > wrote:


I would like to install the hackrf software on to a fresh install of Ubuntu
16.04.2 LTS.  I did an update and upgrade afterwards then the only
installation instructions I could find for the 2017 hackrf version was in
current hackrf github repository host README.md.

 

The not-very-good instructions that I guess you're reading from https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/blob/master/host/README.md are assuming that you have either git cloned or zip downloaded the hackrf repository from github.

 

 


The file says

##How to build the host software on Linux:

###Prerequisites for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install
build-essential cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev pkg-config libfftw3-dev

So I ran it and it did its thing without errors.

Next instruction says:
###Build host software on Linux:

mkdir host/build

 

 

Yep, mkdir needs a -p if you're making a directory path rather than just a directory. That's a mistake in the doc.

 

 

cd host/build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

I could not get past the first line, even running it as sudo but Google is
good and  said the current version of Ubuntu wants : 'mkdir -p host/build'


OK that works and cd host/build and ran

cmake ..

 

 

That command tells cmake to look for a CMakeLists.txt file in the directory above where you ran the command.

 

So... go and get the hackrf github repo If you're unfamilair with git, just click in the web page to download the zip.

 

Unzip the zip.

 

cd hackrf/host

ls

You should see the files listed at https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/tree/master/host

 

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

 

And the rest ought to work.

 

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MC

 

 

 

 

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