usrp_update_fs command not found

Introduction

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

usrp_update_fs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: usrp_update_fs: command not found

Solutions to usrp_update_fs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu usrp_update_fs is provided by python3-uhd package.

python3-uhd is:

Host library for the Universal Hardware Driver for Ettus Research products.

The supported devices provide analog radio receiver and transmitter hardware along with digital interfaces for getting signals to and from a software defined radio running on the host computer.

This package contains the Python API support for Python3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-uhd

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-uhd.

sudo apt -y install python3-uhd

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

sudo aptitude install python3-uhd

Summary

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