SDR on Linux Mint

I picked up one of those "el-cheapo" SDR dongles off Amazon recently and got it working on Windows with SDR Sharp. I'm actually kind of happy with it - not enough time to do a lot, but it's a start. Of course, my Windows machine is my day-to-day work machine and SDR# uses a lot of resources. So why not move it to linux?

My Linux box runs Mint 17 (this will be important very soon). I poked around the Software Manager and was surprised that searching for "SDR" returned no results. I did a few interwebz searches and came across an excellent guide to using SDR on Linux--which included a full bash script for downloading and building GNU-Radio. Seeing that it *is* the workday, I figured that's probably better than doing it manually!

OOPS - when I tried to run the bash script, it alerted me that I need at least version 11 of Mint. But wait - like I said, I'm on Mint 17. I did a little troubleshooting by opening the script and found out the supported versions of Mint are hard-coded to 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. So I did what any good hacker does and I simply added 17 to the list:

Bazinga! The script is now running.

In total, with me focusing on my business day, the script ran for about 5 hours (part of that was the script waiting for me to enter my password for "sudo" dependent actions).