Before this can be built you need to install libusb-dev and rtl-sdr.

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git install cmake if needed (sudo apt-get install cmake)

cd rtl-sdr/ mkdir build cd build cmake ../ make sudo make install sudo ldconfig

Plug in the USB SDR. Run the following command to list your USB devices: lsusb You should see a line that looks like this: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

The important values are 0bda (the Vendor ID) and 2838 (the product ID).

As root, create a new file named 20.rtlsdr.rules in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory with the following content (replace the Vendor ID and the product ID with the values from the ldusb command if they're different): SUBSYSTEM=="usb",ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bda",ATTRS{idProduct}=="2838",GROUP="adm",MODE="0666",SYMLINK+="rtl_sdr"

Unplug the USB device then restart udev: sudo restart udev

Plug back in the USB device.

If you encounter a USB Claim Error that says something like "Kernel drive is active or device is claimed by a second instance of librtlsdr" then you need to prevent the Linux kernel from loading device drivers when the SDR is plugged in. To do this create a file called "no-rtl.conf" in the "/etc/modprobe.d/" directory and add the following lines:

blacklist dvd_usb_rtl28xxu blacklist rtl2832 blacklist rtl2830

Then restart.

Get the source code by running the following command after installing Go and setting up your GOPATH environment variable (see https://golang.org/doc/code.html#Organization): go get github.com/inpursuit/goadsb