osmo_sdr command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix osmo_sdr command not found error message

Introduction

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

osmo_sdr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: osmo_sdr: command not found

In Ubuntu osmo_sdr is provided by osmo-sdr package.

osmo-sdr is:

OsmoSDR is a 100% Free Software based small form-factor inexpensive SDR (Software Defined Radio) project.

The hardware part of OsmoSDR brings information from an antenna connector to a USB plug.

This package is the software that provides control of the USB hardware and an API to pass data to software defined radio applications on the host.

This package contains a set of command line utilities:

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

sudo apt-get -y install osmo-sdr

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

You can also use apt command to install osmo-sdr.

sudo apt -y install osmo-sdr

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

sudo aptitude install osmo-sdr

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