Install GNU Radio+ UHD on Ubuntu

Steps for Beginners

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Ravindran Krishna Mudaliar
Research Course 6050
Advisor: Prof. Robert Daniel
Installation Pre-Requisites

Development Tools (need for compilation)

g++
git
make
autoconf, automake, libtool
sdcc (from "universe")
guile
ccache (not required, but recommended if you compile frequently)
Libraries (needed for runtime and for compilation)

python-dev
SWIG
FFTW 3.X (libfftw3-dev)
cppunit (libcppunit-dev)
Boost 1.35 (or later)
GSL GNU Scientific Library (libgsl0-dev)
libusb and libusb-dev
ALSA (alsa-base, libasound2 and libasound2-dev)
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GNU Radio Companion
for the GNU Radio Companion (GRC) you need to install python-numpy,
python-cheetah and python-lxml
WX GUI
for the WX GUI components you need to install python-wxgtk2.8 and python-
numpy
QT GUI
for the QT GUI components you need to install PyQT4, PyQwt5 for Qt4, QT-
OpenGL, Fontconfig, Xrender and Xinput (python-qt4, python-qwt5-qt4,
libqt4-opengl-dev, libqwt5-qt4-dev, libfontconfig1-dev, libxrender-dev, libxi-
dev)
Video-SDL
for Video-SDL you need to install the Simple DirectMedia Layer development
libraries (libsdl1.2-dev)
Polyphase Filter Bank examples
for the examples in gnuradio-examples/python/pfb to work you need to install
python-scipy, python-matplotlib, and python-tk
Other useful packages
doxygen (for creating documentation from source code)
octave (from "universe")
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GNU Radio + UHD install
Installation Steps on Ubuntu 11.10

mkdir ~/gnuradio-uhd
cd ~/gnuradio-uhd
git clone git://ettus.sourcerepo.com/ettus/uhd.git
git clone git://gnuradio.org/gnuradio.git
cd ~/gnuradio-uhd/uhd/host/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
make test
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
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cd ~/gnuradio-uhd/gnuradio
git branch --track next origin/next
git checkout next
./bootstrap
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/gnuradio-uhd/uhd/host/build/ export
PKG_CONFIG_PATH
./configure --enable-gr-uhd
make
make check
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
This is the last command in the steps for installation

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The gnuradio-companion will result in opening the
GnuRadio and this is how it looks.

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Cnu8adlo Lxample
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Appllcauons for Cnu8adlo
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