How-to Install dump1090-fa and Piaware on Arch Linux x64_86 and on AlarmPi Armv7 & Aarch64

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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Self-Contained Piaware Packaging Script

Builds following components in one package

  1. Piaware data feeder
  2. faup1090
  3. fa-mlat-client

The build script consists of following 3 files in same folder (change ownership of this folder and files in it to yourself)

sudo chown -R abcd /home/abcd/piaware-combo

  1. PKGBUILD
  2. piaware.install
  3. piaware.conf

To build the package, enter the folder containing the above 3 files, and give following command:

makepkg -si

1- PKGBUILD

#Contributor: abcd567
#Maintainer: abcd567

pkgname=piaware
pkgver=latest
pkgrel=1

pkgdesc="Flightaware ADS-B data feeder"

arch=('i686' 'i386' 'x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'armv8h' 'aarch64')
url="https://github.com/flightaware/piaware"
license=('BSD')

depends=('git' 'autoconf' 'tcl' 'tcllib' 'tclx' 'tcltls' 
         'python' 'tk' 'tcllauncher' 'net-tools')

source=('piaware::git+git://github.com/flightaware/piaware'
        'faup1090::git+git://github.com/flightaware/dump1090'
        'fa-mlat-client::git://github.com/mutability/mlat-client.git')

md5sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP')

install=piaware.install

pkgver() {
  cd ${srcdir}/piaware
  git describe --tags | sed 's/-.*//'
}

package() {
## Build faup1090
  cd ${srcdir}/faup1090
  make faup1090
  install -Dm755 ${srcdir}/faup1090/faup1090 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/piaware/helpers/faup1090

## Build fa-mlat-client
  cd ${srcdir}/fa-mlat-client
  ./setup.py install --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr
  install -Dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/fa-mlat-client  ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/piaware/helpers/fa-mlat-client
  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/

## Build piaware
  cd ${srcdir}/piaware
  make install DESTDIR=${pkgdir} SYSTEMD=/usr/lib/systemd/system

  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/var/cache/piaware
  install -dm750 ${pkgdir}/etc/sudoers.d/
  install -Dm644 etc/piaware.sudoers ${pkgdir}/etc/sudoers.d/01piaware
  install -Dm640 ../../piaware.conf ${pkgdir}/etc/piaware.conf
  chmod -x ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/piaware.service
  install -Dm644 LICENSE.txt ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE
}

 

2 - piaware.install

post_install() {
        useradd --system piaware
        chown piaware /var/cache/piaware
        chown piaware /etc/piaware.conf
        systemctl enable piaware
        systemctl start piaware
}

pre_remove() {
        systemctl stop piaware
        systemctl disable piaware
        userdel piaware
}

post_upgrade() {
        post_install
}

 

3 - piaware.conf

# This file configures piaware and related software.
# You can edit it directly or use piaware-config from the command line
# to view and change settings.
#
# If /boot/piaware-config.txt also exists, then settings present in
# that file will override settings in this file.

Packages To Be Installed before building piaware package

(1) BUILD TOOLS to be installed before building any package

sudo pacman --needed -Sy fakeroot binutils git autoconf gcc make patch

(2) Install Piaware dependencies available in Arch Linux Repository

sudo pacman --needed -Sy tcl python tk

(3) Piaware depencies not available in repository. Build and install these as follows.

NOTE: Building these requires build tools [item (1) above] be installed first.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tcllib
cd tcllib
makepkg -si
cd ../

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tclx
cd tclx
makepkg -si
cd ../

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tcltls
cd tcltls
makepkg -si
cd ../

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tcllauncher
cd tcllauncher
makepkg -si
cd ../

 

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