Ham Radio and Linux - Build the latest FLdigi from source under Linux

I've wanted to do a source build vid for awhile. FLdigi is a good subject since updates come often for the program.

Hit me up on the echolink repeater down by my house: W9TE (Node: 519521)

[keuia]

Oh, wow. I watched before and got everything figured out. Now I am on a new computer and can do this install again. Thank you for helping with with these commands. I enjoy your mistakes and how you recover from them. This really helps.

[sendgl]

Not a radio ham but have a friend who is, I am however a Linux fan. Excellent video, well explained.

[TheScottytr]

Great vid! Love seeing the up arrow being used for the command buffer. You should also try using tab for auto complete. It's hard watching you type out the whole commands...

[stephenclaymcgehee]

Excellent! Not only am I now able to set up fldigi, I know how to compile from source code for other programs. Thank you!!

[Scott_AIEF]

Thank you! I know this video is 3 years old, but I had almost had the exact same errors, as I upgraded to FLDIGI 4. 1.17.

[nnkqrp]

Thanks for the great video Kevin. Great explanation of the 'build and install' process! I've grown weary of building source code, being 58 and all, and these days settle for the ease and convenience of adding a PPA to my repository. This is a reasobale (to me) balance between cutting edge (sometimes buggy) code and the stable releases provided for in your OS package manager. Mint, and I assume, Ubuntu, will then check those PPAs for updates. This way, one can often find a newer, 'not officially supported' packages for their OS. If one does this, a great PPA to then add is by Ubuntu and is maintained by the 'Ubuntu Amateur Radio Software Updates team'. This will provide reasonably safe updates to packages added via the PPA process... as long as that package is one in the sights of the Ubuntu people. And if not, the packages will still be checked for updates since the PPA you added is in the package manager now and will be checked during update scans (at least in Mint Linux). Thanks for the Linux coverage and hints! I reboot once a year just for fun. Haha. Take care

[gghutton]

Success. Now I can compile and install source code: 1- ./configure 2- synaptic to install missing files 3- repeat from step one until all the file are installed 4- make 5- sudo make install.

Now I am going to have fun.

[kevin_wbpoh]

Very helpful! The only issue is that there was a step after the "make install" is that I needed to "sudo apt-get install fldigi" to get fldigi to work. It was 4.0.18, so it worked. I am having issues connecting to the rig, too, but I have contacted you directly about that issue.

[WHNorthcote]

Been trying to get Fldigi 4.0.12 to work for a while now. This has helped a lot. Hope it does not crash on me as much as the older one did.

[caulktel]

Thanks Kevin, I haven't used Make since compiling my own custom kernels back in the Red Hat and Slackware days. Nice trip down memory lane.

[pathopkins]

Thank you Kevin for the Source Code Build information .... this makes running the latest version of any program a little less intimidating to get the latest version of APP's / software on your computer / devices =) I will re-post over on G+ to the rest of the Fldigi OP groups to see =)

[rlmillr]

Nice video, it is so much easier that it was. Just for clarity, there should be a feature needed to do this as I believe it will no longer be updated by the system. There is also a guide.txt file in the docs directory for those who want to want additional info.

[gotman]

Thanks for this. Easy instructions to follow.

[patcbradio]

Many Thanks great info .. used all the steps to install 4.1.23 ! on the OS mint 22

[ozcar]

G'day Kevin,
I really enjoyed your video. Good to know how easy it is to compile ham programs. Thanks mate. 73 Cameron VK4YST

[jomckarth]

Thank you Sir, this is what i am looking for, very very well done!!!

[FireicerCooper]

If you have a 4 core system speed up your compile time for make by using "make -j5" -jn+1 means, n=number of cores + 1 extra thread to use hyper-threading. hence 4 cores + 1 is 5 so -j5 will compile your program with multicore threading.

[boblukens]

Awsome Vid and great information... Thanks for spending the time to help tutor us in Linux...

[silvergmc]

Thanks for making this video. I learned a lot!

[DonDegidio]

Hi Kevin,
The configure list had only one more build option for fdigi and that was pulseaudio. Any reason you did not install that lib? 73 WB3BJU