Has anyone successfully installed SparkSDR on Ubuntu 24.04?

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Jose Berrios

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Aug 9, 2024, 3:07:55 PMAug 9
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I attempted but ran into package dependency issues. I wonder if anyone was able to install successfully.


Roger Critchlow

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Aug 9, 2024, 3:50:44 PMAug 9
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I can confirm the problem:
rec@x13:~$ sudo apt install ~/Downloads/SparkSDR.2.0.33.linux-x64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'sparksdr' instead of '/home/rec/Downloads/SparkSDR.2.0.33.linux-x64.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 sparksdr : Depends: libicu72 but it is not installable or
                     libicu71 but it is not installable or
                     libicu70 but it is not installable or
                     libicu69 but it is not installable or
                     libicu68 but it is not installable or
                     libicu67 but it is not installable or
                     libicu66 but it is not installable or
                     libicu65 but it is not installable or
                     libicu64 but it is not installable or
                     libicu63 but it is not installable or
                     libicu62 but it is not installable or
                     libicu61 but it is not installable or
                     libicu60 but it is not installable or
                     libicu59 but it is not installable or
                     libicu58 but it is not installable or
                     libicu57 but it is not installable or
                     libicu56 but it is not installable or
                     libicu55 but it is not installable or
                     libicu54 but it is not installable or
                     libicu53 but it is not installable or
                     libicu52 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

libicu74 is current on my laptop.

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On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 1:07 PM Jose Berrios <wb2...@gmail.com> wrote:
I attempted but ran into package dependency issues. I wonder if anyone was able to install successfully.


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ahop...@googlemail.com

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Aug 10, 2024, 3:23:15 AMAug 10
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Hi,
thanks for this,  I shall try and release a fix soon.
73 Alan M0NNB

Jim Larsen

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Aug 17, 2024, 8:13:15 PMAug 17
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I installed libicu70 from the Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy repository and successfully installed SparkSDR 2.0.33. The SparkSDR audio was ok using the hw:0,0 and sysdefault Audio Output settings. The audio was distorted using the pulse and default settings. This may be caused by replacement of PulseAudio with PipeWire in Ubuntu 24.04.

Jim N7IHQ

ahop...@googlemail.com

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Aug 24, 2024, 8:19:54 AMAug 24
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Hi All,
there is a test build here https://www.sparksdr.com/download/SparkSDR.2.0.985.linux-x64.deb that should work on Ubuntu 24.04. It uses my new build setup that builds it entirely in github actions, a lot changed in the build process so please let me know of any issues.  I used to build on Ubuntu 16.04 to reduce the chance of glibc version problems, the new build uses ubuntu 20.04(as that is the oldest easily useable in github actions) so older linux versions may have issues, if so let me know.
73 Alan M0NNB

wb2bwu

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Aug 24, 2024, 6:43:05 PMAug 24
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This is what I encountered upon attempting to install:

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However, upon installing the missing package, libusb-1.0-0-dev I got the following result:

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SparkSDR installed ok after installing the libusb package. I'm running Quisk on this machine but will test SparkSDR later. 
Thank you very much for your assistance.

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ahop...@googlemail.com

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Aug 25, 2024, 4:08:26 AMAug 25
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Hi,
thanks for this. I installed it with 
sudo apt-get install ./ SparkSDR.2.0.985.linux-x64.deb
this will automatically get the missing dependencies
73 Alan M0NNB

Jim

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Sep 1, 2024, 11:01:19 PMSep 1
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I removed Pipewire from Ubuntu 24.04 using the following commands:

sudo apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin
systemctl enable --user pulseaudio
reboot

SparkSDR with Audio Output set for pulse is working without distortion.

Jim N7IHQ

Roger Critchlow

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Sep 2, 2024, 11:07:46 AMSep 2
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I got a clean install with:

  sudo apt install ~/Downloads/SparkSDR.2.0.985.linux-x64.deb

on Ubuntu 24.04.

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ahop...@googlemail.com

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Sep 26, 2024, 3:58:20 AMSep 26
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Hi Jim, just trying to get to the bottom of audio issues, were your problems on rpi or an intel x64 machine?
73 Alan M0NNB

Jim

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Oct 3, 2024, 2:11:03 PMOct 3
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I observed the choppy audio with SparkSDR 2.0.975 on two intel x64 laptops running Ubuntu 24.04 with PipeWire audio. The audio is clean on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Bookworm OS with PipeWire audio. I will update with the latest SparkSDR versions and evaluate. Thanks for working on the PipeWire audio issues.

Jim N7IHQ

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