Overview

Plug It In

First thing is to hook up the antenna to the USB dongle, and plug the USB dongle into the computer, and make sure the computer sees it:

$ lsusb | grep -i rtl
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T

First thing is to install gnuradio.

apt-get install gnuradio

Yer gonna need Cmake.

apt-get install cmake

Then we'll install the Boost and GSL headers/development libraries for building scripts:

apt-get install libboost-dev libgsl0-dev

(Note that both of these were found using aptitude search [keyword]).

Next, clone into the rtl-sdr repository:

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

This project contains the software needed to interpret the raw I/Q packets sent from the antenna to the computer.

Now build the RTL-SDR project:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../