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I have just retried installing from GitHub and got a bit further...

First I installed the RPi operating system
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ using the Windows download to make the SD card.

I setup the RPi with a HDMI screen and Keyboard/mouse at first, then enabled VNC and setup the WiFi. Then I connected to the RPi via VNC from my Windows PC.
This then means you can have the RPI disconnected from the screen, keyboard and mouse and just have it running in a window on the main PC.

Once this was working I powered down and installed the hardware. Cariboulite onto the 40 way connector.
Powered up again and opened the VNC connection to the RPi.
Opened the Terminal window of the RPi.
On the PC browser opened https://github.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite
Copied and pasted each line from the instructions into the RPi VNC Terminal window and hit return for each line.

mkdir ~/projects
cd ~/projects
git clone https://github.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite
cd cariboulite

Then when it gets to the next line to install I used
./install.sh
(the instructions miss out the ./ )

Once this is running - after you hit return - this installed the software with a few warnings at the end in red.
You then need to do what the warnings say and edit config.sys
You can do this using nano editor by typeing :
sudo nano /boot/config.txt


Then where do you go?

Martin G8LCE

Honesty Martin, You wait for the software to get updated, you can get it to work, I have, but it is not by any means an easy step by step process. Well done to have got as far as you have. Once you get it working, it needs software that supports it. The SoapySDR server seems most reliable at present. Install and configure that on the PI, I think the latest install does this already, start it up and then connect to it from a suitable PC app that supports SoapySDR. Note it will work on receive, not sure it works properly on transmit yet.

I assume you have applied the patch to fix the I=Q bug, that still has not been implemented in the main branch over a month after being pointed out to the developers as pull request 75, which is a pity as it would take only a few moments to do. I get the impression the project has been abandoned by the original team and who would blame them after the struggles with parts availability, so it needs someone else to progress it now. The problem is, before anyone can do that the developer needs to seek help and they do not appear to have done that yet.

Now the good news is, someone has taken it on, https://github.com/konimaru/cariboulite see https://github.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite/issues/94 for how to install.

Mike