How To Install gr-fosphor on Debian 10

Learn how to install gr-fosphor on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gr-fosphor is gnuradio fosphor block (GPU spectrum display)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gr-fosphor on Debian 10.

What is gr-fosphor

gr-fosphor is:

This implements a GNU Radio sink consisting of a GL display window that provides a Real Time Spectrum Analyzer (RTSA)-like spectrum visualization using OpenCL and OpenGL acceleration.

To use the fosphor blocks in Python, import it as :

from gnuradio import fosphor

See the Doxygen documentation for details about the blocks available in this package. A quick listing of the details can be found in Python after importing by using:

help(fosphor)

There are three methods to install gr-fosphor on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gr-fosphor Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gr-fosphor using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gr-fosphor

Install gr-fosphor Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gr-fosphor using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gr-fosphor

Install gr-fosphor Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gr-fosphor using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gr-fosphor

How To Uninstall gr-fosphor on Debian 10

To uninstall only the gr-fosphor package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gr-fosphor

Uninstall gr-fosphor And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gr-fosphor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gr-fosphor

Remove gr-fosphor Configurations and Data

To remove gr-fosphor configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gr-fosphor

Remove gr-fosphor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gr-fosphor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gr-fosphor

Dependencies

gr-fosphor have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gr-fosphor package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.