SoapySDRUtil command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

SoapySDRUtil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: SoapySDRUtil: command not found

Solutions to SoapySDRUtil: command not found

How To Fix SoapySDRUtil: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu SoapySDRUtil is provided by soapysdr-tools package.

soapysdr-tools is:

SoapySDR is a library providing a common interface to SDR (software defined radio) hardware. Support for different hardware is added through external modules.

This package contains the SoapySDRUtil command line utility which can list available modules and hardware.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install soapysdr-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install soapysdr-tools.

sudo apt -y install soapysdr-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install soapysdr-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix SoapySDRUtil command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.