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installing from source

First, install all required packages:

• sudo aptitude install swig build-essential git-core automake libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev libcppunit-dev libboost-dev libusb-dev fort77  sdcc libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 python-numpy guile-1.8 libqt4-dev python-numpy python-opengl libgsl0-dev python-cheetah python-lxml qt4-dev-tools libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools

Then checkout, configure, make & install the GnuRadio trunk

• git clone http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git
  (after the first time, run git pull instead)

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

You need to create a group (“usrp”), add your user to it, and create a udev rule that permits users in the “usrp” group to access (r/w) the usrp device. The following series of commands does this:

sudo addgroup usrp
sudo addgroup `whoami` 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


Then make udev read the new rules (sudo udevadm control –reload-rules) or restart udev (sudo service udev restart).

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, 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