SDR-Updater for CubicSDR breaks CubicSDR

[Waldemar Kowalski]

On my system, at least, running the SDR-Updater with CubicSDR selected results in CubicSDR no longer starting. It used to work, before the update process.

Any guidance on fixing this? If the output of any of the collected log files would be of help I'd be happy to provide this.

Thanks!
waldemar

[Brightflash64]

Hello Waldemar,

The updater script unfortunately had old code which should have been replaced before the iso was uploaded. The new method simply uses an appimage. Here is replacement code for the function you can paste into the script:

getcubicsdr(){
cd ~
wget "https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR/releases/download/0.2.3/CubicSDR-0.2.3-x86_64.AppImage"
chmod +x CubicSDR-0.2.3-x86_64.AppImage
mv ~/CubicSDR-0.2.3-x86_64.AppImage /usr/local/sbin/CubicSDR/CubicSDR.AppImage
}

Actually, you can go directly to github and manually download the latest appimage. Rename it to "CubicSDR.AppImage" and place it in /usr/local/sbin/CubicSDR.

If you want to run the very latest code from the git repo, you can compile it from source as in the old updater script, but the launcher must point to the executable binary instead of the appimage.

Clear as mud, isn't it?

[Waldemar Kowalski]

Thanks, and yes (er, the mud part). But I'll figure it out. Have used Linux in the past for automated CD/DVD rippers (Vortexbox), NAS builds, and firewalls, but did not develop major chops and proficiency. Hoping to do it with this whole process. I was pleased to be able to get SDRangel running and add the Airspy HF+ SoapySDR plugin, so that's a start! Thanks for looking in to those, by the way.