osmo-trx-uhd command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix osmo-trx-uhd command not found error message

Introduction

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

osmo-trx-uhd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: osmo-trx-uhd: command not found

Solutions to osmo-trx-uhd: command not found

How To Fix osmo-trx-uhd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu osmo-trx-uhd is provided by osmo-trx package.

osmo-trx is:

OsmoTRX is a software-defined radio transceiver that implements the Layer 1 physical layer of a BTS comprising the following 3GPP specifications:

TS 05.01 “Physical layer on the radio path” TS 05.02 “Multiplexing and Multiple Access on the Radio Path” TS 05.04 “Modulation” TS 05.10 “Radio subsystem synchronization”

In this context, BTS is “Base transceiver station”. It’s the stations that connect mobile phones to the mobile network.

3GPP is the “3rd Generation Partnership Project” which is the collaboration between different telecommunication associations for developing new generations of mobile phone networks. (post-2G/GSM)

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

sudo apt-get -y install osmo-trx

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

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

sudo apt -y install osmo-trx

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

sudo aptitude install osmo-trx

Summary

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