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Building dump1090 fa from source

wiedehopf edited this page Dec 28, 2019 · 13 revisions

Install required packages

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git build-essential debhelper libusb-1.0-0-dev
sudo apt install -y librtlsdr-dev pkg-config dh-systemd 
sudo apt install -y libbladerf-dev libncurses5-dev lighttpd

Get the source:

rm -rf /tmp/dump1090-fa
git clone https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090.git /tmp/dump1090-fa

Build and install the package:

cd /tmp/dump1090-fa
rm /tmp/dump1090-fa_*.deb
dpkg-buildpackage --no-sign -b
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/dump1090-fa_*.deb

Install the rtl-sdr udev rules

wget -O /tmp/rtl-sdr.rules https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiedehopf/adsb-scripts/master/osmocom-rtl-sdr.rules
sudo cp /tmp/rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
sudo reboot
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