Installing Fldigi
Precompiled Binary
The
precompiled binary is available with and without a dependency on
PulseAudio. Unless you know that your system uses PulseAudio
for
its sound card service you should not download that version.
You will need three shared libraries on your system, hamlib-1.2.10;
libsamplerate; and libportaudio2. Use the libraries available
for
your linux distribution. Most current distributions use
either
deb or rpm files and can be accessed from a global repository.
Building the libraries from source should be a last resort unless you
are a knowledgable Linux user and have performed a library build from
source in the past.
Hamlib
required
You will need to have hamlib-1.2.7 installed on your system before
fldigi can be executed. Most current distributions either
have a deb
or rpm distribution file for hamlib-1.2.10. If you must
compile from
source you can find it at:
http://www.hamlib.org
Follow the instructions in the source code top directory to compile,
link and install the library.
libsamplerate
required
You will need to have libsample installed on your system
before
fldigi can be executed. Most current distributions either
have a deb
or rpm distribution file for libsamplerate. If you must
compile from
source you can find it at:
Follow the instructions in the source code top directory to compile,
link and install the library.
PortAudio2
required
You will need to have libportaudio2 installed on your system before
fldigi can be executed. Most current distributions either
have a deb
or rpm distribution file for libportaudio2. If you must
compile from
source you can find it at:
http://www.portaudio.com
Follow the instructions in the source code top directory to compile,
link and install the library.
Installing fldigi
The static executables are tested on as many distributions
as
possible to insure that they work "out-of-the-box", but there are
always a few Linux distributions that may have a missing link or
library. The precompiled binaries have been tested and work
correctly on all of the Debian and Ubuntu/Kubuntu distributions.
They have also been tested and confirmed to work on Suse
10.1,
and Mandriva 2007.
Download the tarball for the binary version and unpack to a
directory on your HD such as $HOME/bin or some other convenient
directory of your choosing. The least common denominator for
unpacking a tarball is to download the file and save it to a convenient
directory such as $HOME/downloads. Then open up a terminal
window. Assuming you will be installing the executable to
$HOME/bin do the following and that you have downloaded the tarball to
$HOME/downloads
cd
cd bin
tar xzf ../downloads/fldigi-D.dd.npa.bin.tgz
where D.dd is the current version number as in 3.10
You can create a link to the fldigi executable on your desktop
using the fldigi.png icon located at
http://www.w1hkj.com/fldigi-distro/fldigi-psk.png
Creating a desktop link to an
application is different for each desktop manager, so please refer to
the documentation for your specific manager.
The first time that you execute fldigi either from the command line or
by clicking on the executable in a file manager or the desktop icon it
will create a new directory and file:
- $HOME/.fldigi
- $HOME/.fldigi/macros.mdf
If this is a new installation you will be guided through some necessary configuration by a new install wizard.