WSJT-X On Raspberry Pi 5

Overview

This post will assist users on building the WSJT-X application on Raspberry Pi 5.

Download Source

Navigate to https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html and click the link for the Source Code.

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Unzip the Tar

The command to extract.

tar -xvf <filename.ext>

Here is an example using the actual file.

tar -xvf wsjtx-2.6.1.tgz

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From the command line, change into the wsjtx directory and list the files.

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Install Prerequisites

sudo apt install -y build-essential gcc g++ gfortran cmake git asciidoc asciidoctor texinfo qtmultimedia5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5multimedia5-plugins qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libboost-all-dev libfftw3-dev libreadline-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev portaudio19-dev fonts-font-awesome fonts-open-sans hamradio-files libhamlib-utils libqcustomplot-dev

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Building

Navigate to the a directory where you want to stage the build files. I tend to use the /Download/software-i-am-building directory.

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DWSJT_SKIP_MANPAGES=ON -DWSJT_GENERATE_DOCS=OFF ../

cmake build .

sudo cmake --build . --target install

The application will be installed to /usr/local.

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Run

From the command line.

wsjtx

From the Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Conclusion

Hopefully this helped you install WSJT-X from source.

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