RFDump V1.1 Installation on Debian Linux ---------------------------------------- You may skip some of the following steps if the required packages are already installed on your system. 1. Install a Java 1.3.1 environment, e.g. Blackdown Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://url/debian unstable main non-free Where ftp://url is one of the mirrors from the list available at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html. Then do: $ apt-get update $ apt-get install j2sdk1.3 2. Install RXTX Extract the rxtx-bins.1.tar.gz archive Then do (assuming Blackdown installation): $ cp rxtx-bins.1/1.4/i386-pc-linux/libParallel.so /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/lib/i386/ $ cp rxtx-bins.1/1.4/i386-pc-linux/libSerial.so /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/lib/i386/ $ cp rxtx-bins.1/1.4/jcl.jar /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/lib/ext/ 3. Install Comm (Solaris/SparcTM version) Extract the javax_comm-2_0_2-solsparc.tar.Z archive Then do (assuming Blackdown installation): $ cp commapi/comm.jar /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/lib/ext/ $ echo Driver=gnu.io.RXTXCommDriver > /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/lib/javax.comm.properties 4. Make startRFDump executable $ chmod 755 startRFDump 5. Modify rfdump.properties to point to the correct serial port (/dev/ttyS1 is default). 6. Start RFDump in an X environment $ startRFDump