While I try to sort out the problem, if someone wants to try deeptho's program, here's a how-to for getting it on to a Linux distro such as Ubuntu or Mint.
Some utilities (patching, compiling) are necessary for building the program. I've no idea how conversant those who wish to try this are with terminal commands in Linux - you would probably have got the program running by now anyway, so I'll go ahead and assume that isn't the case.
In the terminal emulator of your distro (just called Terminal in your Applications Menu), type
sudo apt update (easier to just copy and paste the commands into your Terminal).
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After that completes, type :
sudo apt upgrade
Wait to finish, now to add some utilities (you'll need root privileges, so still in terminal, type
sudo -s then your password). Then -
sudo apt-get install patchutils libproc-processtable-perl
Then,
sudo apt-get install build-essential (maybe not necessary, but no big dea to add it)
Check for cmake version. In Terminal, type
cmake --version. (should be greater than 3.12.0) If not installed, still in Terminal, type :
sudo apt-get install cmake
You may also need the 'make' build tool, so in Terminal type
sudo apt-get install make
Same with gcc: check
gcc --version . (I think that's already installed in Ubuntu etc).
Next, in terminal
sudo apt-get install git
Now go to
TBS driver installation - LinuxTVWiki
Scroll down to' Buidling TBS'Forked Driver' and follow these instructions in your Terminal -
mkdir tbsdriver
cd tbsdriver
git clone tbsdtv/media_build
git clone --depth=1 deeptho/linux_media -b latest ./media
cd media_build
make dir DIR=../media
make allyesconfig
make -j4
sudo make install
(Notice we replace tbsdtv with deeptho in the second cloning line!)
Now reboot - in Terminal
sudo reboot
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To check you have the driver for your TBS PCi card/USB box, in Terminal do
dmsg | grep frontend (should show your TBS adapter frontend). If not you will need to go to TBS's download site to obtain the open source Linux driver for your pci card or USB box.
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The Blindscan app.
Go to
deeptho/linux_media and click on the green Code bar to download the deepthought zip. Unzip the downloaded file copy or send it to your Home folder.
Go to
deeptho/blindscan and follow the instructions at the bottom of the page.
You will, with any luck and following my hopefully legible instructions, be ready to do some spectrum and blindscanning - if you don't come to a full stop as I have done- you might be lucky in having the elusive magic kernel or whatever it is that has so far evaded me!
