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sudo apt-get -y install libxi-dev mkdir src cd src git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git cd rtl-sdr/ mkdir build cd build sudo apt-get install cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev checkinstall cmake ../ make sudo checkinstall sudo ldconfig sudo cp rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart rtl_test and then to get gqrx, the graphical scanner, go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gqrx/files/latest/download to install gnuradio, do the following commands: sudo apt-get install libaudio-dev sudo apt-get -y install libxi-dev sudo apt-get -y install libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev libpulse-dev \ swig g++ automake autoconf libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev \ libcppunit-dev libboost-all-dev libusb-dev fort77 sdcc sdcc-libraries \ libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 git-core guile-1.8-dev \ libqt4-dev python-numpy ccache python-opengl libgsl0-dev \ python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen qt4-dev-tools \ libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools python-qwt5-qt4 or maybe all you need is this: http://www.opensecurityresearch.com/files/gnuradio_rtl-sdr_bt5r2_bundle_v0.1.tar.bz2 from this webpage http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2012/06/getting-started-with-gnu-radio-and-rtl.html