Installing RTL_SDR components

Although the “gqrx” software installed many of the components. We still need to install the following components.

Issue the following command:

sudo git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git

This command will download the source files into a directory: “~/rtl-sdr”

sdrradio@sdr-radio:~$ sudo git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git
Cloning into 'rtl-sdr'...
remote: Counting objects: 1582, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (676/676), done.
remote: Total 1582 (delta 1157), reused 1213 (delta 898)
Receiving objects: 100% (1582/1582), 340.30 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1157/1157), done.
Checking connectivity... done

Now that we have downloaded our source code, we will need to compile this code:

A directory called “rtl_sdr” will have been automatically created for us within our home area (/home/userid/rtl_sdr). Next we need to Change to the “rtl_sdr” directory below and build our resources:

Commands issued:

$ cd rtl-sdr/
$ sudo mkdir build
$ cd build
$ sudo cmake ../
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ~
$ sudo cp ~/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
$ sudo ldconfig