Repairing install

SatNOGS Software
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After attempting to follow STRF installation instructions here, observations now fail. I attempted to reinstall the packages that were initially removed, but this alone has not fixed the failing observations. Is there a way to restore this SatNogs installation to working order without a complete reflash? I suspect removing the packages in the first place broke a link somewhere…

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I need more information on the errors you get.

Is sudo satnogs-setup still working ?

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Did you install another rtl-sdr package or by source ? in this case I think that is all that it should take, uninstall those and reinstall the satnogs version.

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satnogs-setup is still working, it appears that rtl-sdr fails later on during obs?

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what is the package name and location for the satnogs version?

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My best guess: rtl-sdr_0.6.0-3satnogs1_armhf.deb

apt-cache show rtl-sdr

Package: rtl-sdr
Version: 0.6.0-3satnogs1
Architecture: armhf
Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 172
Depends: librtlsdr0 (= 0.6.0-3satnogs1), libc6 (>= 2.29)
Filename: armhf/rtl-sdr_0.6.0-3satnogs1_armhf.deb
Size: 56500
MD5sum: dd6f10111c180dad7fa81125c3338024
SHA1: 8d2e545076a1f92368cb44a9e23fda72a35512bb
SHA256: f50a6ddd54c58b7c18bc491a9fe4591d944b672d956e18006527900c92cda7a3
Section: comm
Priority: optional
Homepage: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
Description: Software defined radio receiver for Realtek RTL2832U (tools)
 rtl-sdr is a software defined radio (SDR) receiver software for certain
 low-cost DVB-T/DAB(+) USB dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U chip.
 .
 This package contains a set of command line utilities:
  * rtl_adsb: a simple ADS-B decoder for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_eeprom: an EEPROM programming tool for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_fm: a narrow band FM demodulator for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_sdr: an I/Q recorder for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_tcp: an I/Q spectrum server for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_test: a benchmark tool for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
Description-md5: e83ebc54466f1df73b3c0ad5540e4f0d

Package: rtl-sdr
Version: 0.6.0-3
Architecture: armhf
Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 183
Depends: librtlsdr0 (= 0.6.0-3), libc6 (>= 2.29)
Homepage: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
Priority: optional
Section: comm
Filename: pool/main/r/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr_0.6.0-3_armhf.deb
Size: 55056
SHA256: de759fa151011281968e6fdc03f77b397c9c0e30ed61f710fc947d80f3d3d117
SHA1: ca80f2026f58949c709c7f0dd35e87ac1f030009
MD5sum: 43aa5996810c74441232bb1e2809b45f
Description: Software defined radio receiver for Realtek RTL2832U (tools)
 rtl-sdr is a software defined radio (SDR) receiver software for certain
 low-cost DVB-T/DAB(+) USB dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U chip.
 .
 This package contains a set of command line utilities:
  * rtl_adsb: a simple ADS-B decoder for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_eeprom: an EEPROM programming tool for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_fm: a narrow band FM demodulator for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_sdr: an I/Q recorder for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_tcp: an I/Q spectrum server for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
  * rtl_test: a benchmark tool for RTL2832 based DVB-T receivers
Description-md5: e83ebc54466f1df73b3c0ad5540e4f0d
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The OBS repo is here.
Or, after cleaning out the junk, try apt-get --reinstall install rtl-sdr librtlsdr0.
If you have messed with soapy you need to fix that as well, SoapySDRUtil --info will tell you if there’s some oddities with the modules.

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Thanks, I’ll give that a try and let you know