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installing from source

First, install all required packages:

• sudo aptitude install build-essential subversion automake libtool fort77 python-dev swig libfftw3-dev libcppunit-dev libboost1.38-dev libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 sdcc libusb-dev python-numpy guile-1.8 libgsl0-dev libqt3-mt-dev python-cheetah python-lxml libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev

Then checkout, configure, make & install the GnuRadio trunk:

• svn co http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk <FOLDER>
  (after the first time, replace “svn co” with “svn up”)
• OR git clone http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git

choose components

I actually don’t need some of the stuff built by default, so the configure command I use is:

./configure --disable-gr-msdd6000 --disable-gr-audio-oss --disable-gr-cvsd-vocoder --disable-gr-gpio --disable-gr-radar-mono --disable-gr-radio-astronomy --disable-gr-pager --disable-gr-atsc

permissions

• sudo addgroup usrp
• sudo addgroup <YOUR_USERNAME> usrp
• echo ‘ACTION==”add”, BUS==”usb”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”fffe”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”0002″, GROUP:=”usrp”, MODE:=”0660″‘ > tmpfile
• sudo chown root.root tmpfile
• sudo mv tmpfile /etc/udev/rules.d/10-usrp.rules

broken libtool

• Add a new line with /usr/local/lib to the file /etc/ld.so.conf
• Run sudo ldconfig

OpenGL sinks

To enable OpenGL sinks,

• install python-opengl
• add the following to ~/.gnuradio/config.conf

[wxgui]
style=gl

binary .deb packages

• Add deb http://gnuradio.org/ubuntu stable main contrib to your /etc/apt/sources.list
• Remove any previous GnuRadio installation: sudo make uninstall (in the directory of the GSR source)
• sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install gnuradio
  
• sudo addgroup <USERNAME> usrp

References

1. http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall
2. http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/DebianPackages