How To Install quisk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quisk
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is quisk
quisk is:
Quisk uses ALSA sound drivers or PortAudio and offers these capabilities:
- Quisk can control the HiQSDR.
- As a receiver it can use the SDR-IQ by RfSpace as a sample source. There are several decimation rates available. The QUISK receiver will read the sample data, tune it, filter it, demodulate it, and send the audio to the sound card for output to external headphones or speakers.
- As a receiver it can use your soundcard as a sample source. You supply a complex (I/Q) mixer to convert radio spectrum to a low IF, and send that IF to the left and right inputs of the sound card in your computer. The demodulated audio goes to the same soundcard for output.
- Quisk can control SoftRock hardware for both receive and transmit.
- As a transmitter it can control an SSB/CW exciter and a transceiver using Ethernet.
- As a transmitter it can accept microphone input and send that to a transmitter for SSB operation. For CW, QUISK can mute the audio and substitute a side tone. Quisk can send transmit data to your sound card for use with SoftRock or similar.
There are three methods to install quisk
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install quisk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install quisk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quisk
Install quisk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quisk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quisk
Install quisk Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install quisk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quisk
How To Uninstall quisk on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the quisk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quisk
Uninstall quisk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quisk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quisk
Remove quisk Configurations and Data
To remove quisk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quisk
Remove quisk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quisk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quisk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quisk
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.