Support #411
Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago
As an amateur radio enthusiast I have need for a few pieces of software. This is a simple guide on setting up my Arch Linux installation with the required software needed for amateur radio usage. Currently my software load out for HAM radio includes: * Chirp: Used to program my Baofeng UV-5R+ * GNUradio: A powerful digital signal processing application * GPredict: Used to get a fix on amateur radio satellites * Gqrx: Used to interface with software defined radios * Stellarium: Not really used for radio, but great for radio astronomy * Audacity: Used for recording and manipulating audio files h3. Install cower to handle AUR packages * Create a directory to store AUR build files: <pre> mkdir ~/src && cd ~/src </pre> * Download the packages for yaourt: Install cower <pre> cd /tmp pacman -S wget wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/package-query/package-query.tar.gz && wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ya/yaourt/yaourt.tar.gz https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/co/cower/cower.tar.gz tar xzf *.tgz cower.tar.gz </pre> #* Install package-query: <pre> cd package-query cower makepkg -csi -si PKGBUILD </pre> #* Install yaourt <pre> cd ../yaourt makepkg -csi </pre> h2. Installation * To start, install the packages that are available from the Arch repositories: <pre> sudo pacman -S gnuradio gqrx audacity stellarium </pre> * chirp <pre> yaourt wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ch/chirp/chirp.tar.gz tar xzf chirp.tar.gz cd chirp makepkg -s PKGBUILD sudo pacman -U chirp*.xz </pre> #* NOTE: Users need to be added to the tty group, in order to program radios over @/dev/ttyUSB0@. This can be done like so (you'll need to log out and back in for this to take effect): <pre> sudo gpasswd --add ind3x tty </pre> * gpredict (and dependencies) <pre> yaourt cd ~/src cower -dd gpredict cd hamlib makepkg -si PKGBUILD cd ../grig makepkg -si PKGBUILD cd ../gpredict makepkg -si PKGBUILD </pre>