Build & Install Piaware latest version on amd64 / x86_64, and arm64 / aarch64 Computers Using Scripts

abcd567 · December 8, 2022, 4:52pm

The scripts on the github page linked below use source-code from Flightaware to build and install the dump1090-fa, piaware, piaware-web, and dump978-fa packages, matching to your Computer & OS.

Please click the link to visit the page and see it in full.

Please note that these scripts first install lot of packages which are build tools and dependencies, and after that clones source code from Github and builds the deb package, and finally install this package. This is a lengthy process and takes some time. Please be patient and let the script run till it announces it has completed its job.

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## Automated Installation of <ins>_latest version_</ins> of piaware, dump1090-fa, piaware-web, and dump978-fa (by building packages from source code), on following OS: </br>

### (1) Ubuntu 18, 20, 22, 23 & 24 - amd64 / x86_64  
### (2) Debian 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 - amd64 / x86_64  
### (3) Linux Mint 19, 20, & 21 - amd64 / x86_64  
### (4) Kali-linux 2021, 2022, & 2023 - amd64  
### (5) On RPI Model 3 & 4 (32-bit & 64-bit / armv7l & aarch64) Raspberry Pi OS Stretch, Buster, & Bullseye, DietPi OS Stretch, Buster, Bullseye, & Bookworm, Orange Pi Armbian OS Buster  Bullseye, Bookworm, Jammy, Ubuntu 18, 20, and 22 for RPi, and Kali 2021 for RPi 
### (6) On RPI <ins>Model 5</ins> Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm (32-bit & 64-bit) </br>

## (1) DUMP1090-FA
**IMPORTANT NOTE:** </br>
Raspberry Pi OS **Bookworm** relesed on 2023-10-10 has broken USB on RPi4, but is OK on RPi5. </br>If you have installed Raspberry Pi OS **Bookworm** (2023-10-10) on RPi4, then to fix this bug, upgrade it by following commands: </br>
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot
```
Copy-paste following command in SSH console and press Enter key. The script will install dump1090-fa. </br></br>
`sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcd567a/piaware-ubuntu-debian-amd64/master/install-dump1090-fa.sh)" `</br></br>

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YvesMengin · December 9, 2022, 4:19pm

Can I use this to update an existing install?

N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘raspberrypi-stable/binary-arm64/Packages’ as repository ‘http://repo.feed.flightradar24.com flightradar24 InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘arm64’
N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘piaware/binary-arm64/Packages’ as repository ‘http://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages bullseye InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘arm64’

abcd567 · December 9, 2022, 4:30pm

As your architecture is arm64, which is not YET supported by FR24 and FA repositories, these warnings are issued.

These warning are issued when command sudo apt update is issued by the script (or even if you issue update command manually).

The installation scripts in first post of this thread do NOT use these repositories, they use source-code from Github. These warnings therefore do not affect installation by the scripts.

Just ignore these warnings and let the scripts complete their job.

Please note that the scripts first install lot of packages which are build tools and dependencies, and after that clones source code from Github and builds the deb package, and finally install this package. This is a lengthy process and takes some time. Please be patient and let the script run till it announces it has completed its job.

chsa19601 · December 11, 2022, 12:14am

Excellent job of putting install/upgrade together. Upgrade of my rpi4-2gb went very smooth and everything came back online just as you would expect it to!
Been online for 879 days, which is a record for my system.

jimMerk2 · December 15, 2022, 8:38pm

Anyone know what changes are in version 8.2 compared with 8.1?

paulysa1969 · May 6, 2023, 9:45pm

Hi there. I have followed this procedure. But it fails here:

(4) DUMP978-FA (For USA ONLY. Requires 2nd Dongle)

sudo bash -c “$(wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abcd567a/piaware-ubuntu-debian-amd64/master/install-dump978-fa.sh)”

My 2 dongles are serialised however to 00001090 for ADSB and 00000978 for UAT.
I have an airband VHF dongle also serialised to 00108137.

rtl_test -t shows lists them via serial number correctly.

This command worked:
sudo sed -i ‘s/^RECEIVER_SERIAL=.*/RECEIVER_SERIAL=00001090/’ /etc/default/dump1090-fa

This command did not as I expected it would not:
sudo sed -i ‘s/driver=rtlsdr[^ ]* /driver=rtlsdr,serial=00000978 /’ /etc/default/dump978-fa

I am based in the USA able to receive UAT 978MHz.

I have an OrangePI (could not get a RPi due to availability and cost)
uname -a yields this:
Linux OrangePi01 5.15.80-sunxi #22.11.1 SMP Wed Nov 30 11:13:48 UTC 2022 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

It fails at the compile stage of (4) DUMP978-FA at this point:

g++ -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/home/paul/Documents/adsb/dump978/package-bullseye=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -std=c++11 -Wall -Wno-psabi -Werror -O2 -g -Ilibs -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DVERSION="8.2" -c -o soapy_source.o soapy_source.cc
g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated program cc1plus
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [: dump978_main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs…
make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/home/paul/Documents/adsb/dump978/package-bullseye’
dh_auto_build: error: make -j4 VERSION=8.2 dump978-fa skyaware978 returned exit code 2
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:13: override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/paul/Documents/adsb/dump978/package-bullseye’
make: *** [debian/rules:23: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2
grep: debian/dump978-fa/DEBIAN/control: No such file or directory
Installing dump978-fa and SkyAware978
dpkg: error: cannot access archive ‘skyaware978__.deb’: No such file or directory
Failed to enable unit: Unit file skyaware978.service does not exist.
Failed to restart skyaware978.service: Unit skyaware978.service not found.
dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'dump978-fa__.deb’: No such file or directory
Failed to enable unit: Unit file dump978-fa.service does not exist.
Failed to restart dump978-fa.service: Unit dump978-fa.service not found.
uat-receiver-type is unchanged

DUMP978-FA INSTALLATION COMPLETED
Serialize 1090 and 978 dongles, and configure the
dump1090-fa, dump978-fa, and piaware accordingly

I have attached a text file with my terminal output of (4) DUMP978-FA.

I look forward to any suggestions to remedy this.

Regards
Paul

abcd567 · May 7, 2023, 12:36am

Which version of OS you are using? Is it Armbian (jammy) or Armbian (bullseye)?

I use Armbian (bullseye) on my orangepi and ~~can install and run dump978-fa without any issue~~ CORRECTION: I now recalled that I could NOT build & install dump978-fa on my OrangePiPC as it’s RAM is only 1 GB. The dump978-fa build process is memory hungry, and requires at least 4 GB RAM to build it.

Please see this post:

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/new-install-of-piaware-3-cant-communicate-with-beast/37369/18

following commadns will reveal the details of OS

lsb_release -a   

cat /etc/os-release

paulysa1969 · May 7, 2023, 1:01am

Hi there.
Thanks for the response.

Details as requested from my terminal:

oot@OrangePi01:/home/paul# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
root@OrangePi01:/home/paul# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Armbian 23.02.2 Jammy”
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION_ID=“22.04”
VERSION=“22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)”
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://help.ubuntu.com/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“Bugs : Ubuntu”
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=“Data privacy | Ubuntu”
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
root@OrangePi01:/home/paul#

abcd567 · May 7, 2023, 1:07am

How many GB RAM your Orange Pi has?
I now recalled that I could NOT build & install dump978-fa on my OrangePiPC as it’s RAM is only 1 GB. The dump978-fa build process is memory intensive, and requires at least 4 GB RAM to build it.

Please see this post:

paulysa1969 · May 7, 2023, 1:17am

I see it has only 1GB. I also only have 500M left on my SD card so cant even do a swap file. I did find this and was going to try it.

sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/swap/
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/cache/swap/swap0 bs=64M count=64
sudo chmod 0600 /var/cache/swap/swap0
sudo mkswap /var/cache/swap/swap0
sudo swapon /var/cache/swap/swap0
sudo swapon -s

But I assume after what you describe that this will not work.

Is it possible to build dump978-fa elsewhere (I have an x64 Intel i7 gen 11 with Ubuntu 22.10 and 16GB DDR4 and 2TB SSD) and copy it onto the OrangePI?

abcd567 · May 7, 2023, 1:35am

Just now successfully installed from Flightaware Repository on OrangePIPC, Armbian (BULLSEYE):

wget https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages/pool/piaware/f/flightaware-apt-repository/flightaware-apt-repository_1.1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i flightaware-apt-repository_1.1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install dump978-fa

sudo sed -i 's/^RECEIVER_SERIAL=.*/RECEIVER_SERIAL=00001090/' /etc/default/dump1090-fa

sudo sed -i 's/driver=rtlsdr[^ ]* /driver=rtlsdr,serial=00000978 /' /etc/default/dump978-fa

sudo piaware-config uat-receiver-type sdr

sudo reboot

paulysa1969 · May 7, 2023, 1:37am

I think it is so awesome to see a complete fa build with dump1090, dump978, piaware and piaware-web.
I had an ambitious plan to build PiAware 1090/978 and then try to use the feeds for FR24, AirNav RadarBox and ADSBExchange and then later to try to add AirNav RadarBox VHF airband dongle too.
Just not sure what to use. If one RPI/OrangePI not enough was gonna run 1090 on one, 978 on a 2nd and airband on a 3rd and then feed the 1090’s and 978’s separately to FR24, AirNav and ADSBX

abcd567 · May 7, 2023, 1:48am

You can have all above on your one OrangePi, provided you use Debian based (bullseye) Armbian CLI version (i.e. no GUI to save resources) instead of lithargic Ubuntu based (jammy) Armbian with GUI.

abcd567 · May 7, 2023, 2:06am

Have a look here:

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/fyi-alternatives-to-raspberry-pi-for-this-hobby/82096/184

paulysa1969 · May 7, 2023, 4:14am

I dont think it works on mine.

root@OrangePi01:/home/paul# apt install dump978-fa
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Package dump978-fa is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package ‘dump978-fa’ has no installation candidate
root@OrangePi01:/home/paul# apt-cache policy dump978-fa
dump978-fa:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
root@OrangePi01:/home/paul#

So gonna get bullseye and try with that

abcd567 · May 7, 2023, 10:13am

The packages dump1090-fa, dump978-fa, piaware, piaware-web are NOT available from Debian or Ubuntu Repositories. Hence you get responce “not available”

You have to first add Flightaware Repository to your OS by following commands, then run `sudo apt install commands.

STEP 1 of 2:
Add Flightaware Repository

wget https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages/pool/piaware/f/flightaware-apt-repository/flightaware-apt-repository_1.1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i flightaware-apt-repository_1.1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

STEP 2 of 2:
Install packages

sudo apt install dump978-fa

sudo apt install dump1090-fa

sudo apt install piaware

sudo apt install piaware-web

NOTE:
On Ubuntu it may or may not install (dependency issues). No harm in trying to install these on ubuntu. If it fails to install, then re-image microSD card with Armbian (bullseye), the CLI version (i.e. no GUI) to save disk space and other resources.

paulysa1969 · May 9, 2023, 6:08am

I redid my OrangePI with bullseye cli and installed dump1090-fa, dump978-fa, piaware and piaware-web and serialised the dongles with rtl-sdr and I have a working system. I also have MLAT working. I am not sure about the UAT 978 yet.

abcd567 · May 9, 2023, 1:12pm

UAT traffic is occasional in some areas (like here in Toronto). Most of the time when I open the Skyaware978 Map, there are no planes.

To monitor, I have installed graphs1090 (see installation command below). The graphs1090, amongst other things, also plot the UAT flights, so I know there were UAT flights received by my receiver while I was not looking at Skyaware978 map.

COMMAND TO INSTALL GRAPHS1090:

sudo bash -c "$(wget -q -O - https://github.com/wiedehopf/graphs1090/raw/master/install.sh)"

jafrank · May 9, 2023, 2:29pm

Or… you could go to your feeder statistics page on flightaware.com, and not have to install any additional software at all…

Positions:

Aircraft:

system · May 8, 2024, 2:30pm

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Build & Install Piaware latest version on amd64 / x86_64, and arm64 / aarch64 Computers Using Scripts

Just now successfully installed from Flightaware Repository on OrangePIPC, Armbian (BULLSEYE):

https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/fyi-alternatives-to-raspberry-pi-for-this-hobby/82096/184

STEP 1 of 2: Add Flightaware Repository

STEP 2 of 2:Install packages

COMMAND TO INSTALL GRAPHS1090:

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STEP 1 of 2:
Add Flightaware Repository

STEP 2 of 2:
Install packages