GNURadio: Ubuntu Install

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   * Development Tools (need for compilation)
         o g++
         o subversion
         o make
         o autoconf, automake, libtool
         o sdcc (from "universe"; 2.4 or newer)
         o guile (1.6 or newer)
         o ccache (not required, but recommended if you compile frequently)

   * Libraries (need for runtime and for compilation)
         o python-dev
         o FFTW 3.X (fftw3, fftw3-dev)
         o cppunit (libcppunit and libcppunit-dev)
         o Boost 1.35 (or later)
         o libusb and libusb-dev
         o wxWidgets (wx-common) and wxPython (python-wxgtk2.8)
         o python-numpy (via python-numpy-ext) (for SVN on or after 2007-May-28)
         o ALSA (alsa-base, libasound2 and libasound2-dev)
         o Qt (libqt3-mt-dev for versions earlier than 8.04; version 4 works for 8.04 and later)
         o SDL (libsdl-dev)
         o GSL GNU Scientific Library (libgsl0-dev >= 1.10 required for SVN trunk, not in binary repositories for 7.10 and earlier)

   * SWIG (1.3.31 or newer required)
         o Edgy or previous: requires installation from source
         o Feisty or newer: use the standard package install (swig)

   * QWT (optional) (5.0.0 or newer required)
         o Must be installed from source (as of 2008-01-15).
         o qt4 versions should be used for 8.04 and 8.10. DO! : sudo apt-get update and then upgrade for a proper qt4.

   * QWT Plot3d Lib
         o Must be installed for gr-qtgui to work. qt4 version preferred for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10

   * Polyphase Filter Bank examples
         o for the examples in gnuradio-examples/python/pfb to work you need to install python-scipy, python-matplotlib, and python-tk

   * Other useful packages
         o doxygen (for creating documentation from source code)
         o octave (from "universe")

Install Scripts¶

The following are scripts to take most users through a GNU Radio install on a typical Ubuntu install, with the hope that it provides enough guidance such that you can get GNU Radio up and running on your Ubuntu box.

  • This section is for Edgy or previous only (no changes are needed on Feisty or newer, except possibly to disable the CDROM entry):

Manually uncomment all repositories to include "universe" and "multiverse" either via direct editing 

 sudo <EDITOR> /etc/apt/sources.list


or via the provided GUI: System -> Administration -> Software Sources. Then enter the admin password for access. On the "Ubuntu" tab, make sure all of "main restricted universe multiverse" are checked and the rest unchecked (or deal with those are you deem correct for your setup). Click "Close", then "Reload" to update the package list. The uncommented lines of the file "/etc/apt/sources.list" should read something like (DIST is a string with your particular distribution: edgy, feisty, gusty, etc):

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ DIST main restricted universe multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ DIST-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ DIST-security main restricted universe multiverse

Update 

sudo apt-get update

Instal untuk Maverick (10.10) 

apt-get -y install libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev libpulse-dev swig g++ automake libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev \
libcppunit-dev libboost-all-dev libusb-dev fort77 sdcc sdcc-libraries \
libsdl1.2-dev python-wxgtk2.8 subversion git-core guile-1.8-dev \
libqt4-dev python-numpy ccache python-opengl libgsl0-dev \
python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen qt4-dev-tools \
libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools

apt-get -y install gkrellm wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev alsa-base autoconf xorg-dev gawk bison \
openssh-server emacs cvs octave3.2

apt-get -y install g77 usbview

apt-get install swig libqwt-dev

apt-get install libboost-dev



Installing GNU Radio¶ Download, bootstrap, configure, and compile GNU Radio package:

  1. Install GNU Radio from git
cp gnuradio-3.3.0.tar.gz /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/
tar zxvf gnuradio-3.3.0.tar.gz 
cd /usr/local/src/gnuradio-3.3.0/
./configure
make
make check
make install


git clone http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git

cd gnuradio export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$BOOST_PREFIX/lib # As per the instructions for installing Boost

./bootstrap ./configure --with-boost=$BOOST_PREFIX # As per the instructions for installing Boost make

Optionally: Run the GNU Radio software self-check; does not require a USRP.

make check


If any test or tests do not work, GNU Radio might still function properly, but it might be wise to look in the email archives for a fix or to write the email list. If writing to the email list, please include the OS type, OS version, and CPU type (e.g. via "uname -a"), anything special about the computer hardware, software versions (gcc, g++, swig, sdcc, etc) and how installed (standard or non-standard package, source). Now install GNU Radio for general use (default is in to /usr/local ):

sudo make install

Ubuntu uses udev for handling hotplug devices, and does not by default provide non-root access to the USRP. The following script is taken from directions, and sets up groups to handle USRP via USB, either live or hot-plug 

sudo addgroup usrp
sudo usermod -G usrp -a <YOUR_USERNAME>
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
  • At this point, Ubuntu is configured to know what to do if/when it detects the USRP on the USB, except that "udev" needs to reload the rules to include the newly created one. The following might work, but if it doesn't then rebooting the computer will.
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules


or 

sudo /etc/init.d/udev stop
sudo /etc/init.d/udev start


or 

sudo killall -HUP udevd

You can check if the USRP is being recognized, by examining /dev/bus/usb after plugging in a USRP. Using the command: 

ls -lR /dev/bus/usb | grep usrp


should result in one or more lines (one for each USRP) reading something like: 

crw-rw---- 1 root usrp 189, 514 Mar 24 09:46 003


Each device file will be listed with group 'usrp' and mode 'crw-rw----'. 

   * NOTE: If installing on Feisty or newer, the computer probably needs to be rebooted in order for the GNU Radio software to interface correctly with the USRP hardware. This does not seem to be necessary on Edgy.

Once you've verified that the USRP is available to Ubuntu, now it is time to verify that GNU Radio works with the USRP (if installed; if not, skip this). While "usrp_benchmark_usb" might not return a full 32 MB/s of throughput, the script should at least run properly; if not, either GNU Radio didn't make correctly or the USRP isn't accessible. From the "gnuradio" directory, verify that all of the following work:

  • Python interface to the USRP; provides a rough estimate of the maximum throughput (quantized to a power of 2) between the host computer and the USRP.
cd gnuradio-examples/python/usrp
./usrp_benchmark_usb.py
  • C++ interface to the USRP; provides a good estimate of the maximum throughput (non-quantized) between the host computer and the USRP.
cd usrp/host/apps
./test_usrp_standard_tx
./test_usrp_standard_rx

Update the rest of the system, after which you might need or want to reboot: 

sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Update the Linux distro, after which a reboot is required: 

sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

Broken libtool on Debian and Ubuntu¶

Because Debian and Ubuntu apply a poorly implemented "enhancement" to the upstream version of libtool, they break the ability to test code and libraries prior to installing them. We think that testing before installation is a good idea. To work around their damage, be sure to include $PREFIX/lib (and $PREFIX/lib64 on 64-bit machines) in /etc/ld.so.conf.

If you don't include $PREFIX/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, you will see errors during the linking phase of the build. There are several places it shows up. The first one is often during the build of mblocks. It's not an mblock problem. It's a Debian/Ubuntu problem.

Do this to work around this "feature": 1) Make a copy from the current ld.so.conf file and save it in a temp folder:

cp /etc/ld.so.conf /tmp/ld.so.conf

2) Add /usr/local/lib path to it :

echo /usr/local/lib >> /tmp/ld.so.conf

3) If you installed Boost (version 1_37_0 for example) manually, then add its library path to the file:

echo /opt/boost_1_37_0/lib >> /tmp/ld.so.conf

4) Delete the original ld.so.conf file and put the modified file instead:

sudo mv /tmp/ld.so.conf /etc/ld.so.conf

5) Do ldconfig:

sudo ldconfig

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