UbuntuInstall

There's generally no need to build GNU Radio from source code unless you want to modify GNU Radio rather than just using it. The recommended way to install GNU Radio on most platforms is using already compiled binary packages. Binary installation should be sufficient for most users, and certainly for anyone who is new to GNU Radio. However, if you have special requirements, or a binary package is not available for your system, you may need to install GNU Radio from source.

In short: on all modern Ubuntu versions use:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuradio/gnuradio-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnuradio

See our PPA page for more details.

The rest of this page describes dependencies for building GNU Radio from source code.

Update and Install dependencies

Before building UHD and GNU Radio, you need to make sure that all the dependencies are installed.

The following commands will install all the required dependencies. Before running them, you should ensure that the "Main" and "Universe" repositories are enabled in "Software Sources".

Next, on a terminal screen, run:

   sudo apt-get update

Once the system has been updated, then install the required dependencies below.

Focal Fossa (20.04) through Kinetic Kudu (22.10)

GNU Radio version 3.8.x with Python 3 support:

sudo apt install git cmake g++ libboost-all-dev libgmp-dev swig python3-numpy \
python3-mako python3-sphinx python3-lxml doxygen libfftw3-dev \
libsdl1.2-dev libgsl-dev libqwt-qt5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev python3-pyqt5 \
liblog4cpp5-dev libzmq3-dev python3-yaml python3-click python3-click-plugins \
python3-zmq python3-scipy python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0 \
libcodec2-dev libgsm1-dev

GNU Radio version 3.9.x in addition to above requires:

sudo apt install pybind11-dev python3-matplotlib libsndfile1-dev \
python3-pip libsoapysdr-dev soapysdr-tools

pip install pygccxml
pip install pyqtgraph

GNU Radio version 3.10.x and the 'main' branch in addition to above require:

sudo apt install libiio-dev libad9361-dev libspdlog-dev python3-packaging python3-jsonschema

If the installation of the dependencies completes without any errors, then you can proceed to build and install UHD and GNU Radio.