[OUTDATED] How to Install Piaware v 3.7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) & Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco) amd64 / Intel PC

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As to which bit is breaking, I really have no idea, but my first guess would be a USB problem (there’s a VM involved somewhere? many VMs don’t play well with librtlsdr) followed by a build / version skew problem as abcd does like his frankenstein installs.

This happens not only on Debian 10 amd64 on VM, but also on Armbian Buster on armv7 (Orangepipc)

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(3) dump978-fa (FAILED)

3.1 - Install build tools & dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential debhelper dh-systemd       
sudo apt install libboost-system-dev libboost-program-options-dev    
sudo apt install libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libsoapysdr-dev     

3.2. Clone source-code, build package, and install package

git clone https://github.com/flightaware/dump978.git 
cd dump978  
git checkout dev    

sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b  

cd ../
sudo dpkg -i dump978-fa_3.8.0~dev_armhf.deb

3.3 - Configure

3.3.1 - Serialize dongles: (CLICK HERE)

3.3.2 - configure dump1090 and dump978

sudo piaware-config uat-receiver-type sdr 
sudo sed -i 's/--device-index 0/--device-index 00001090/' /etc/default/dump1090-fa 
sudo sed -i 's/driver=rtlsdr/driver=rtlsdr,serial=00000978/' /etc/default/dump978-fa 

# Reboot Pi to implement configuration settings
sudo reboot

3.4 - Check status

pi@orangepipc:~$ sudo systemctl status dump978-fa
[sudo] password for pi:
● dump978-fa.service - dump978 ADS-B UAT receiver
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dump978-fa.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-12-24 14:15:21 EST; 21s ago
     Docs: https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/
  Process: 5018 ExecStart=/usr/share/dump978-fa/start-dump978-fa (code=exited, status=2)
 Main PID: 5018 (code=exited, status=2)