Installing GNU Radio on ubuntu

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Im trying to install GNU Radio, I need this to be able to install gqrx to use my software defined radio dongle.

I have followed the guide at https://www.jeroennijhof.nl/wiki/index.php/Software-Defined_Radio_on_Ubuntu but the installation aborts because cheetah isn't installed. Python-cheetah is in fact installed in its latest version, running sudo apt-get install python-cheetah only states that it is already installed.

Does anyone know why GNU Radio doesn't accept that Cheetah is installed?

Output from installation attempt:

-- Python checking for Cheetah >= 2.0.0
-- Python checking for Cheetah >= 2.0.0 - not found
CMake Error at volk/CMakeLists.txt:62 (message):
  Cheetah templates required to build VOLK


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I wrote a shell script to do an installation of GNU Radio and GQRX. https://github.com/jacobzelek/rtl_sdr_kit — , Oct 20 '13 at 19:54
Are you sure that the cheetah version is 2.0.0 or higher? (it should be, but checking cannot hurt). Did you try to uninstall it via `apt-get` and installing it with [`pip`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip) instead? — Dettorer, Oct 23 '14 at 12:31

Michael L Kornegay · Answer 1 · 2014-10-23T12:18:33.370

It appears you want to install from source, I have had good results using following on xubuntu in the past:

wget http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio && chmod a+x ./build-gnuradio && ./build-gnuradio

Reference: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/InstallingGRFromSource

Note the dependencies for ubuntu in the script and see how they relate to the installation note you referenced.

They are migrating to a PyBOMBS method but I have not yet tried that yet. In fact, now I generally use MacPorts's package manager since I have moved to Mac and their gnuradio source packages are very up to date.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 12 '15 at 10:56

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I had this same issue. (I'm on CentOS7 though so ymmv) python-cheetah was on my system and was even being found by pybombs. Run this with the /pybombs directory and see what it says

./pybombs search cheetah

It "found" cheetah but still didn't install. I overcame it with this.

python -m pip install cheetah

After that i tried to install gnuradio again and it found cheetah correctly but it failed due to not being able to find UHD_LIBRARIES.
I followed the instructions here and here to install USRP Hardware Driver™ software (UHD™).

I restarted and then did./pybombs install gnuradio This time it worked. I hope this helps.

answered Jun 12 '15 at 10:56

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Didn't know that "UHD" was a registered trademark -- is that true? – Marcus Müller Jun 14 '15 at 20:10
That's how they've got it on their website. – Jonathan Pelham Jun 18 '15 at 17:42
I only knew of the "USRP Hardware Driver™", not of the "UHD™"; but you're right. I never cease to learn, it seems :) – Marcus Müller Jun 18 '15 at 18:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '16 at 16:08

Had the same problem on an old openSuse 11.3. Was caused by an old executable /usr/bin/python2.6, which cmake found for some odd reason and used it.

(python 2.7 was compiled and installed manually, and calling python reported Python 2.7.13)

After removing the binary /usr/bin/python2.6 and recreating the build directory it worked for me.

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 24 '18 at 01:52

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I had same problem, if you use conda, just:

conda install Cheetah

edited Jan 24 '18 at 01:52

Stephen Rauch

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answered Jan 24 '18 at 01:31

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Installing GNU Radio on ubuntu

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