Packaging

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Introduction

The Packaging project maintains packages (software/firmware) of hardware drivers and SDR frameworks such as GNU Radio, along with key dependencies.

Repositories

Ubuntu

Ubuntu packages are available for SDR hardware drivers and GNU Radio through the MyriadRF launchpad team site.

Quick instructions, add the following PPAs to your system:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:bladerf/bladerf
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/gnuradio
sudo apt-get update

drivers PPA

The drivers PPA hosts packages for most SDR support drivers.

  • We build drivers for all supported Ubuntu releases: precise, trusty, utopic, vivid, wily
  • Supported hardware architectures: armhf, i386, and amd64
Software Version Install URL
Airspy 1.0.5 sudo apt-get install airspy libairspy-dev http://airspy.com/
Blade RF 2015.06 sudo apt-get install bladerf libbladerf-dev https://www.nuand.com/
Hack RF 2014.08.1 sudo apt-get install hackrf libhackrf-dev https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/
Mirics SDR 0.0.4.59ba37 sudo apt-get install miri-sdr libmirisdr-dev http://www.mirics.com/sdr
OsmoSDR 0.1.8.effcaa7 sudo apt-get install osmo-sdr libosmosdr-dev http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/
RTL SDR 0.5.3 sudo apt-get install rtl-sdr librtlsdr-dev http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
Soapy Blade RF 0.1.0 sudo apt-get install soapysdr-bladerf https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyBladeRF/wiki
Soapy Osmo 0.1.0 sudo apt-get install soapyosmo-* https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyOsmo/wiki
Soapy SDR 0.2.1 sudo apt-get install soapysdr libsoapysdr-dev https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR/wiki
Soapy UHD 0.1.0 sudo apt-get install soapysdr-uhd uhd-soapysdr https://github.com/pothosware/SoapyUHD/wiki
UHD 3.8.4 sudo apt-get install uhd-host libuhd-dev https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd
UmTRX 1.0.4 sudo apt-get install umtrx http://umtrx.org/

drivers-snapshots PPA

The snapshots drivers PPA hosts additional SDR drivers that are not yet formally released.

  • We build drivers for all supported Ubuntu releases: precise, trusty, utopic, vivid, wily
  • Supported hardware architectures: armhf, i386, and amd64

gnuradio PPA

Debian