gqrx without pulseaudio

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Does anyone know of a gqrx build for 13.1 that will run without pulseaudio?

I am using 13.1 with the xfce desktop, which did not install pulse audio. My multimedia is working for me and I don’t want to mess things up by installing pulseaudio.

Any and all hep appreciated.

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I’m not familiar with this package or whether such a build exists. So, unless someone chimes in to the contrary, I think you may need to build this yourself. I note that the relevant section of gqrx.pro contains

unix:!macx {
    packagesExist(libpulse libpulse-simple) {
        # Comment out to use gr-audio (not recommended with ALSA and
Funcube Dongle Pro)
        AUDIO_BACKEND = pulse
        message("Gqrx configured with pulseaudio backend")
    }
}

and from here

it is mentioned that ‘AUDIO_BACKEND = pulse’ needs to be commented out. (Looking through the code, it then seems to fall back to requiring ‘gnuradio-audio’ to be installed. I don’t see such a package available for openSUSE.)

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I’ve done a little reading on building gqrx. It looks to me like it would be easier to install pulseaudio. Ah, well. Thanks for the input :slight_smile: