1. Permissions

add user to dialout group to access serial devices without root

sudo adduser $USER dialout
logout / login

2. Dependencies

sudo apt install git build-essential cmake npm
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
sudo apt install python3-hamlib (if not found: python3-libhamlib2)
sudo apt install python3 portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio python3-pip python3-colorama
pip3 install psutil crcengine ujson pyserial numpy structlog

3. Install FreeDATA

git clone https://github.com/DJ2LS/FreeDATA.git
cd FreeDATA/gui
npm i
cd ..

Optional: Install codec2

If you want to use the latest version of codec2, just download and compile it. The tnc will detect, if a self compiled version is used. Otherwise a precompiled binary will be used.

cd tnc (FreeDATA/tnc)
git clone https://github.com/drowe67/codec2.git
cd codec2
mkdir build_linux
cd build_linux
cmake ..
make

Optional: Update Hamlib

Older versions of Ubuntu, like Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Suse have sometimes outdated versions of Hamlib in their repositories. If you need a newer version, because of your radio for example, you can install the latest version from source.

Please uninstall older hamlib version before installing from source with sudo apt uninstall python3-libhamlib2!

sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0 swig
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/releases/download/4.3.1/hamlib-4.3.1.tar.gz
tar xvf hamlib-4.3.1.tar.gz
cd hamlib-4.3.1
./configure --with-python-binding PYTHON=$(which python3)
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig