How To Install gr-hpsdr on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gr-hpsdr on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gr-hpsdr
gr-hpsdr is:
Hardware supported includes OpenHPSDR Hermes / Metis and Red Pitaya using the OpenHpsdr protocol.
hermesNB sources decimated downconverted 48K-to-384K receiver complex stream(s), and sinks one 48k sample rate transmit complex stream.
hermesWB sources raw ADC samples as a vector of floats, with vlen=16384. Each individual vector contains time contiguous samples. However there are large time gaps between vectors. This is how HPSDR produces raw samples, it is due to Ethernet interface rate limitations between HPSDR and the host computer.
The modules are compatible with version 3.7 of gnuradio and versions of Hermes firmware 1.8 through at 3.2. (known as OpenHPSDR protocol 1). It is not compatible with the new OpenHPSDR protocol 2.
This package contains the header files and grc block definitions.
There are three methods to install gr-hpsdr on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-hpsdr 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-hpsdr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gr-hpsdr
Install gr-hpsdr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gr-hpsdr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gr-hpsdr
Install gr-hpsdr 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gr-hpsdr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gr-hpsdr
How To Uninstall gr-hpsdr on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gr-hpsdr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gr-hpsdr
Uninstall gr-hpsdr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gr-hpsdr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gr-hpsdr
Remove gr-hpsdr Configurations and Data
To remove gr-hpsdr configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gr-hpsdr
Remove gr-hpsdr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gr-hpsdr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gr-hpsdr
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gr-hpsdr package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
