gqrx command not found

Introduction

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

gqrx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gqrx: command not found

Solutions to gqrx: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gqrx is provided by gqrx-sdr package.

gqrx-sdr is:

Gqrx works with hardware supported by gr-osmosdr, including Funcube Dongle, RTL-SDR, Airspy, HackRF, BladeRF, RFSpace, USRP and SoapySDR.

Gqrx can operate as an AM/FM/SSB receiver with audio output or as an FFT-only instrument. The built-in Gqrx AFSK1200 decoder can decode and display AX.25 packets. There are also various hooks for interacting with external applications using network sockets.

Wideband FM mode has mono, stereo, and RDS (Radio Data System) modes. Displays FFT plot and spectrum waterfall.

It is powered by GNU Radio and the Qt GUI toolkit.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gqrx-sdr

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

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

sudo apt -y install gqrx-sdr

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

sudo aptitude install gqrx-sdr

Summary

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