NOTE:
* I did this on debian jessie which at the time has gnuradio v 3.7.3-9+b1 and rtl-sdr v 0.5.3-3
* I'm having a lot of trouble getting gqrx working on debian wheezy even with backports. Whereas the backports versions of gnuradio, rtl-sdr and gqrx-sdr install just fine, when running gqrx I get the following error:
The post:
I recently bought a DVB USB dongle based on RTL2832 and R280T: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221450623699?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649. AU$11for a TV card which actually works flawlessly under linux really isn't bad!
As I already have a mythtv setup using leadtek DTV 1000S I was more interested in exploring the R820T dongle as a software defined radio (SDR).
So, after glancing at http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/06/getting-started-with-rtl-sdr/2/ I did the following
Starting gqrx and using it is easy:
So far I haven't managed to get anything other than regular commercial radio signals (I've only explored the FM band).
* I did this on debian jessie which at the time has gnuradio v 3.7.3-9+b1 and rtl-sdr v 0.5.3-3
* I'm having a lot of trouble getting gqrx working on debian wheezy even with backports. Whereas the backports versions of gnuradio, rtl-sdr and gqrx-sdr install just fine, when running gqrx I get the following error:
* gqrx won't work on debian wheezy systems with 2 Gb of memory for some reason. I get the same error as is shown in this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gqrx/20F8RMWkNbU
gqrx: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtNetwork.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN16QIODevicePrivate13putCharHelperEc
The post:
I recently bought a DVB USB dongle based on RTL2832 and R280T: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221450623699?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649. AU$11for a TV card which actually works flawlessly under linux really isn't bad!
As I already have a mythtv setup using leadtek DTV 1000S I was more interested in exploring the R820T dongle as a software defined radio (SDR).
So, after glancing at http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/06/getting-started-with-rtl-sdr/2/ I did the following
sudo apt-get install rtl-sdr gnuradio gnuradio-dev libgnuradio-osmosdr0.1.1.4 git libboost-dev liblog4cpp5-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-program-options-dev checkinstall
mkdir ~/tmp
cd ~/tmp
git clone https://github.com/csete/gqrx.git gqrx.git
cd gqrx.git/
mkdir build
cd build
qmake ../
make
sudo checkinstall --install=no
0 - Maintainer: [ root@niobium ]
1 - Summary: [ gqrx ]
2 - Name: [ gqrx ]
3 - Version: [ 20140726 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 - Source location: [ build ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ build ]
12 - Conflicts: [ ]
13 - Replaces: [ ]
sudo dpkg -i gqrx_20140726-1_amd64.deb
Starting gqrx and using it is easy:
gqrx
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