Mike – to your question,yes this is a brand new installation starting with the NOOBs image and update/upgrade after adding the jessie repository to sources.list. I could see that some files were coming from jessie rather than wheezy, but apparently not what I needed!

PRETTY_NAME=”Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)”
NAME=”Raspbian GNU/Linux”
VERSION_ID=”7″
VERSION=”7 (wheezy)”
ID=raspbian

The kernel version is 3.18.7 #755 from 2/12.

After adding jessie to the sources.list and going the apt-get update and install of libusb-1.0., the screen display showed that libusb-1.0.0.dev was installed and the version was 11.1 So clearly it is not getting the latest libusb version (19.1) I located the libusb.h file in /usr/include but can’t figure out how to see what version is it.

Repeating the process just produces the message that the latest version of libusb-1.0 is already installed.

I’m kind of out of ideas here, as I’m doing everything as you specify as far as I can see, but it’s not installing version 19.1 Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Also, is there a way to see which version of a library is installed? None of the Google suggestions I’ve tried produce anything resembling 11.1 or 19.1.

Thanks again,

Bob

Mike, thanks for the reply and yes, I get the first errors when running update. I went ahead and tried to install and got the second set of errors, not surprisingly.

I thought I’d try starting from scratch with a fresh copy of Rasbian from the NOOBs image. I’ll add the jessie repository first and then run update-upgrade. Previously, I’ve always followed some build instructions that included installing the libusb-1.0-0-dev package before building the rtl-sdr code, and maybe that’s messing things up.

it makes sense that this should fix the problem, I just need to get the right libusb version installed.

73, Bob W9RAN

Hi Bob – Sorry to hear you’re having problems. I’ve just been through the libusb update as described in my post and it worked ok for me so I don’t think there’s a problem with the source.
What build are you starting from? I’m using the latest raspbian build dated 16-2-2015. I assume you get these errors after entering sudo apt-get update, is that correct?

Regards,

Mike

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Reading package lists… Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.rasbian.org_rasbian_dists_jessie_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

then the following errors while trying to install libusb-1.0:

pi@raspberrypi /etc/apt $ sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0
Reading package lists… Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.rasbian.org_rasbian_dists_jessie_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Bottom line – the segmentation fault problem still occurs. Any thoughts?

73, Bob W9RAN