Operating System Tips

Here are some software setup tips for particular Operating Systems and Linux distributions.

Ubuntu 13.04

1. Prerequisites

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential cmake git-core autoconf automake  libtool g++ python-dev swig \
pkg-config libfftw3-dev libboost1.53-all-dev libcppunit-dev libgsl0-dev \
libusb-dev sdcc libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 python-numpy \
python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen python-qt4 python-qwt5-qt4 libxi-dev \
libqt4-opengl-dev libqwt5-qt4-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev ia32-libs

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi

2. libhackrf

git clone git://github.com/mossmann/hackrf.git
cd hackrf/host
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

3. GNU Radio (Note that this will install GNU Radio version 3.7.x which means that old flow graphs won't work due to renamings.)

git clone git://git.gnuradio.org/gnuradio.git
cd gnuradio
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make -j4 # example build command to speed up compilation process when 4 cores are available
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

4. gr-osmosdr

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/gr-osmosdr
cd gr-osmosdr
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make
sudo make install

OS X (10.5+) with MacPorts

sudo port install gr-osmosdr +full

Gentoo Linux

emerge hackrf-tools
USE="hackrf" emerge gr-osmosdr

other Linux distributions

Use build-gnuradio to automatically compile and install libhackrf, gr-osmosdr, and GNU Radio from source.