Is it possible to install pcsc-lite 1.8.13 on raspbian OS?

Question

I'm working on a raspberry pi project. I'm trying to install a driver package for ACR1251U-A1 NFC tag.

This package requires to install pcsc-lite package at first. But as I understand after a search on the internet, pcsc-lite 1.8.13 is not possible for raspbian OS.

But my supervisor persists that pcsc-lite 1.8.13 should be installed on raspberry pi to make nfc tag work.

Is it possible to install it on raspbian? If it is so, could you help me how to do that?

Answer 1

I was able to install pcscd daemon and using pcsc-lite wrapper in NodeJS on Raspbian (Linux raspberrypi 3.18.11-v7+ #781 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 21 18:07:59 BST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux) using Raspberry Pi B+ and Raspberry Pi 2.

Here an extract of the Requirements installation from the full guide of mine project on GitHub:

2. Install PC/SC and libnfc (references: nfc-tools, libnfc):

   sudo apt-get install pcscd libusb-dev libpcsclite1 libpcsclite-dev dh-autoreconf
   
   cd /opt/
   sudo wget https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/archive/libnfc-1.7.1.zip
   sudo unzip libnfc-1.7.1.zip
   cd libnfc-libnfc-1.7.1/
   sudo autoreconf -vis
   sudo ./configure --with-drivers=all
   sudo make
   sudo make install
   

   Additionaly, you may need to grant permissions to your user to drive the device. Under GNU/Linux systems, if you use udev, you could use the provided udev rules. e.g. under Debian: sudo cp /opt/libnfc-libnfc-1.7.1/contrib/udev/42-pn53x.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/

3. Make sure the NFC reader is properly recognized:

   sudo nfc-list
   

   1. To fix: error while loading shared libraries: libnfc.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (reference)

      echo '/usr/local/lib' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local-lib.conf && sudo ldconfig
      

   2. If you have kernel version > 3.5, probably pcscd and also nfc-list will report this error: Unable to claim USB interface (Device or resource busy) due to the automatic load of pn533 driver.

      To read the pcscd dameon output you can run it using: pcscd -f -d

      1. Check which kernel version is installed: uname -a

      2. Blacklist pn533 and nfc drivers (references: Arch Linux wiki Touchatag RFID Reader, nfc-tools forum):

         sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-libnfc.conf
         

         Add the following lines:

         blacklist pn533 blacklist nfc

      3. Disable kernel modules:

         modprobe -r pn533 nfc
         

      4. Restart the pcscd daemon: sudo service pcscd restart

Answer 2

The nfc-tools.org website has good directions for how to install on ubuntu systems.

Here is how I did it on my Raspberry Pi 3 B running Raspbian 8.0 (jessie)

sudo apt-get install pcscd libusb-dev libpcsclite1 libpcsclite-dev dh-autoreconf libudev-dev libusb-0.1-4
sudo wget -O /lib/udev/rules.d/93-pn53x.rules https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nfc-tools/libnfc/master/contrib/udev/93-pn53x.rules

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/nfc-tools/libnfc.git
cd libnfc
git checkout libnfc-1.7.1
git clean -d -f -x
rm ../libnfc*.deb #may not exist
git remote|grep -q anonscm||git remote add anonscm git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/libnfc.git
git fetch anonscm
git checkout remotes/anonscm/master debian
git reset
dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b
sudo dpkg -i ../libnfc*.deb

Next plug in NFC device, wait 30 seconds. May have to unplug then plug in again. Now you can run nfc-list to see if your device is detected.

If you are still running into problems stop the pcsc daemon (sudo service pcscd stop) then manually run sudo pcscd -f -d to monitor the output.

Note: You will have to restart pcscd and unplug and re-plug your device to use it over pcsc after running nfc-list