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+ Chirp * GNUradio: A powerful digital signal processing application GNUradio * 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 GPredict h3. Install cower to handle AUR packages * Create a directory to store AUR build files: <pre> mkdir ~/src && cd ~/src </pre> * Install cower <pre> pacman -S wget wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/co/cower/cower.tar.gz tar xzf cower.tar.gz cd cower makepkg -si PKGBUILD </pre> h2. Installation * To start, install the packages that are available from the Arch repositories: <pre> sudo pacman -S gnuradio gqrx </pre> * Next, install packages from AUR; we will be doing this from a local source directory: <pre> mkdir ~/src && cd ~/src </pre> # chirp <pre> 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> wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ha/hamlib/hamlib.tar.gz cd ~/src wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gr/grig/grig.tar.gz cower -dd gpredict wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gp/gpredict/gpredict.tar.gz tar xzf hamlib.tar.gz tar xzf grig.tar.gz tar xzf gpredict.tar.gz cd hamlib makepkg -si -s PKGBUILD sudo pacman -U hamlib*.xz cd ../grig makepkg -si -s PKGBUILD sudo pacman -U grig*.xz cd ../gpredict makepkg -si -s PKGBUILD </pre> sudo pacman -U gpredict*.xz