dberg
March 9th, 2007, 10:46 PM
This tutorial will show you how to install fldigi, a program for controlling amateur radio transceivers.
These instructions have been compiled from instructions given at:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-1.3/Installing.html
The download location given is not guaranteed to be the newest version of each piece of software but they should work together. Search if you want to make sure you have the most up to date version!
First we will install hamlib:
Download the archive here. (http://www.n9drb.com/linux/hamlib-1.2.6.1.tar.gz)
Now in the terminal:
sudo aptitude update
If you do not have build essential installed then use this:
sudo aptitude install build-essential
Now navigate to the location of the downloaded archive, then
tar -xvzf hamlib-1.2.6.1.tar.gz
cd hamlib-1.2.6.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
I prefer to use checkinstall which you can get with:
sudo aptitude install checkinstall
Then replace
sudo make install
with
sudo checkinstall -D
Next we will install FLTK:
Download FLTK here. (http://www.n9drb.com/linux/fltk-1.1.7-source.tar.gz)
Now navigate to the location of the downloaded archive.
Now in the terminal:
tar -xvzf fltk-1.1.7-source.tar.gz
cd fltk-1.1.7-source
./configure --enable-threads --enable-xft --enable-localjpeg --enable-localpng --enable-localzlib
make
then
sudo make install
or
sudo checkinstall -D
Now for fldigi, download here. (http://www.n9drb.com/linux/fldigi-1.32.src.tar.gz)
Navigate to the location of the archive.
In the terminal:
tar -xvzf fldigi-1.32.src.tar.gz
cd fldigi-1.32.src
make CFG=Release
Now we need to move the binary file to the bin. Be sure to replace "extractionlocation" with the location that you downloaded the archive to.
sudo mv extractionlocation/fldigi-1.32.src/Release/fldigi /bin
Now you should be able to run the program by:
fldigi
Errors I had and how to fix them:
While trying to install FTLK the first time I got this error
checking for X... no
configure: error: Configure could not find required X11 libraries
./configure: line 8268: exit: aborting.: numeric argument required
./configure: line 8268: exit: aborting.: numeric argument required
To fix this I had to install xorg-dev by searching in synaptic and installing it.
I received this error when trying to run fldigi the first time
fldigi: error while loading shared libraries: libhamlib.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is what fixed it
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libhamlib2
To configure fldigi the first time you run it try the instructions given here. (http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-1.3/Configuring.html)
If you have problems or find errors in this tutorial, post them here and I or someone else can try to help.
Good luck!
These instructions have been compiled from instructions given at:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-1.3/Installing.html
The download location given is not guaranteed to be the newest version of each piece of software but they should work together. Search if you want to make sure you have the most up to date version!
First we will install hamlib:
Download the archive here. (http://www.n9drb.com/linux/hamlib-1.2.6.1.tar.gz)
Now in the terminal:
sudo aptitude update
If you do not have build essential installed then use this:
sudo aptitude install build-essential
Now navigate to the location of the downloaded archive, then
tar -xvzf hamlib-1.2.6.1.tar.gz
cd hamlib-1.2.6.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
I prefer to use checkinstall which you can get with:
sudo aptitude install checkinstall
Then replace
sudo make install
with
sudo checkinstall -D
Next we will install FLTK:
Download FLTK here. (http://www.n9drb.com/linux/fltk-1.1.7-source.tar.gz)
Now navigate to the location of the downloaded archive.
Now in the terminal:
tar -xvzf fltk-1.1.7-source.tar.gz
cd fltk-1.1.7-source
./configure --enable-threads --enable-xft --enable-localjpeg --enable-localpng --enable-localzlib
make
then
sudo make install
or
sudo checkinstall -D
Now for fldigi, download here. (http://www.n9drb.com/linux/fldigi-1.32.src.tar.gz)
Navigate to the location of the archive.
In the terminal:
tar -xvzf fldigi-1.32.src.tar.gz
cd fldigi-1.32.src
make CFG=Release
Now we need to move the binary file to the bin. Be sure to replace "extractionlocation" with the location that you downloaded the archive to.
sudo mv extractionlocation/fldigi-1.32.src/Release/fldigi /bin
Now you should be able to run the program by:
fldigi
Errors I had and how to fix them:
While trying to install FTLK the first time I got this error
checking for X... no
configure: error: Configure could not find required X11 libraries
./configure: line 8268: exit: aborting.: numeric argument required
./configure: line 8268: exit: aborting.: numeric argument required
To fix this I had to install xorg-dev by searching in synaptic and installing it.
I received this error when trying to run fldigi the first time
fldigi: error while loading shared libraries: libhamlib.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is what fixed it
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libhamlib2
To configure fldigi the first time you run it try the instructions given here. (http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-1.3/Configuring.html)
If you have problems or find errors in this tutorial, post them here and I or someone else can try to help.
Good luck!