Note: While there is a Part 1 — Hardware Assembly, it is not required for Part 2 — Software Installation. You can skip over Part 1 if you are waiting for your parts to arrive.

Note 2: Now Blockstream provides pre-built binaries of all the software you need. So now building from source code is optional.

Software requirements:

Fedora 26 .iso image

image GNURadio version 3.7.10+ (Fedora 26 has 3.7.11 in its software repository)

gr-osmosdr (available in Fedora repo)

Bitcoin FIBRE (we will build this ourselves)

Miscellaneous dependencies (available in Fedora repo)

Other requirements:

Ability to follow instructions / will to learn

Moderate Linux command line utility knowledge

Installing Fedora 26:

Since the Fedora Project already has very nice installation documentation, I will link to that versus recreating it here:

Note: Make sure to mark yourself as “Administrator” during the install.

You will need the .iso in order to install Fedora. It is located here:

https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

To transfer the .iso to a USB drive, you can use Unetbootin if you are using Windows:

http://unetbootin.github.io/