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Downloads and binary installers

Ubuntu package repository

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The Pothos Ubuntu PPA contains deb packages for Pothos, Soapy SDR, recent releases of SDR device drivers, and various Pothos toolkits. Note: This PPA contains pre-release SNAPSHOTS of Soapy SDR and Pothos. In the future, there will be separate repositories for snapshots and releases.

The PPA supports the following Ubuntu releases: * Trusty (14.04 LTS) * Utopic (14.10) * Vivid (15.04)

Add the Pothos PPA to your Ubuntu system:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:guruofquality/pothos
sudo apt-get update

Install Pothos with GUI tools and all official toolkits:

sudo apt-get install pothos-all

Using SDR hardware? Install Soapy SDR and support drivers for your hardware:

#runtime files and python language bindings
sudo apt-get install soapysdr python-soapysdr python-numpy

#rtl sdr support:
sudo apt-get install soapyosmo-rtlsdr

#blade rf support:
sudo apt-get install bladerf soapyosmo-bladerf

#hack rf support:
sudo apt-get install hackrf soapyosmo-hackrf

#usrp support:
sudo apt-get install uhd uhd-soapysdr soapysdr-uhd

Developing with Pothos or Soapy SDR? Install development packages:

sudo apt-get install libpoco-dev-min libpothos-dev libsoapysdr-dev

openSUSE package repository

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This openSUSE repository contains packages for a variety of software in the SDR ecosystem including Pothos and SoapySDR. Special thanks to Martin Hauke for maintaining this repository:

Windows Pothos SDR environment

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The Pothos SDR development environment contains pre-built windows binaries of Pothos and SoapySDR along with a number of hardware drivers and the GNU Radio toolkit.

Follow the tutorial steps:

Or go direct to downloads: