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Hardware driver for all USRP devices. Version 4.10.0.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-07.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install uhd

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install uhd

MacPorts ports tree · science/uhd/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add uhd

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · uhd · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install libuhd-dev

Debian stable package indexes · libuhd-dev · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install uhd

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · uhd · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#uhd

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/uh/uhd/package.nix · source: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install libuhd4_10_0

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libuhd4_10_0 · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

Hardware driver for all USRP devices

Commands and aliases

  • uhd_adc_self_cal
  • uhd_cal_rx_iq_balance
  • uhd_cal_tx_dc_offset
  • uhd_cal_tx_iq_balance
  • uhd_config_info
  • uhd_find_devices
  • uhd_image_loader
  • uhd_images_downloader
  • uhd_usrp_probe
  • usrp2_card_burner

history

Project history and usage

UHD, the USRP Hardware Driver, is Ettus Research's free and open-source driver and API layer for Universal Software Radio Peripheral hardware.

Project history

The official README describes UHD as the software driver and API for the USRP software-defined radio platform created and sold by Ettus Research. It supports Ettus Research USRP motherboards, daughterboards, and their combinations, making it the central host-side software layer for that hardware family.

The public GitHub repository was created in 2013 and contains host driver code, embedded module peripheral manager code, firmware, FPGA image sources, image packaging scripts, and debugging tools. The project therefore behaves like more than a typical CLI package: it is a driver, API, firmware/FPGA distribution, and hardware support tree.

Release metadata shows a long-lived 3.x-to-4.x line, with public 3.11/3.12 release-candidate and stable releases in 2018 and UHD 4.10.0.0 published in April 2026.

Adoption history

UHD's adoption follows USRP hardware adoption in research labs, radio prototyping, telecom testbeds, and SDR developer environments. The README names common third-party application frameworks and toolkits that use UHD with USRP hardware, including GNU Radio, RFNoC out-of-tree blocks, NI LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink, REDHAWK, OpenBTS, Osmocom, srsRAN, and OpenAirInterface.

The supplied package data records UHD in Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/dnf, and openSUSE. That packaging matters because SDR users often need a reproducible host driver before higher-level GNU Radio or telecom stacks can see their radios.

How it is used

Package users commonly install UHD for command-line discovery, image loading, probing, calibration, and host API development. The Homebrew executables include uhd_find_devices, uhd_usrp_probe, uhd_image_loader, uhd_images_downloader, uhd_config_info, and several calibration utilities.

The official manual documents device setup and low-level operational behavior such as tuning, sample-rate constraints, overflow and underflow handling, threading, and device-family-specific configuration. In practice, UHD is both a user-facing diagnostic toolkit and the library dependency that unlocks USRP support for SDR applications.

Why package nerds care

UHD is significant to package maintainers because it sits at the boundary between package management and physical hardware. A working formula or distro package has to account for libraries, firmware/FPGA images, USB or network transport, command-line tools, and ABI expectations from SDR applications.

For users, installing UHD from a package manager is often the first test of whether a USRP setup is usable: device discovery and uhd_usrp_probe provide quick confirmation before moving into GNU Radio, RFNoC, or custom C++/Python applications.

Timeline

  • 2013: Public GitHub repository created.
  • 2018: Public UHD 3.11 and 3.12 release metadata available on GitHub.
  • 2026: UHD 4.10.0.0 release published.
  • 2026: Official manual identified the documentation version as 4.10.0.0.

Related projects

  • The README names GNU Radio, RFNoC OOT Blocks, NI LabVIEW, MATLAB/Simulink, REDHAWK, OpenBTS, Osmocom, srsRAN, and OpenAirInterface as common UHD application frameworks or toolkits.
  • UHD is tightly coupled to Ettus Research USRP hardware and to the firmware and FPGA image assets distributed with the project.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for uhd. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
uhd_adc_self_calcliglobal executable
uhd_cal_rx_iq_balancecliglobal executable
uhd_cal_tx_dc_offsetcliglobal executable
uhd_cal_tx_iq_balancecliglobal executable
uhd_config_infocliglobal executable
uhd_find_devicescliglobal executable
uhd_image_loadercliglobal executable
uhd_images_downloadercliglobal executable
uhd_usrp_probecliglobal executable
usrp2_card_burnercliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version4.10.0.0
manager updated2026-05-07
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:uhd
Version4.10.0.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/uhd
Homepagehttps://files.ettus.com/manual/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd
Upstream docshttps://files.ettus.com/manual
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd/archive/refs/tags/v4.10.0.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-05-07T13:23:05Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesboost, libusb, python@3.14
Build dependenciescmake, doxygen, pkgconf
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameuhd
Version Scheme0
Revision1
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

libuhd-dev 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - headers

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 1 dependencies
  • 2 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libuhd-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libuhd4.8.0 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - library

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd4.8.0
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 9 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libuhd4.8.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libuhd4.8.0-dpdk 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - DPDK

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd4.8.0-dpdk
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 15 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libuhd4.8.0-dpdk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libuhd4.8.0-dpdk-tests 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - DPDK tests

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd4.8.0-dpdk-tests
  • Section: science
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 13 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libuhd4.8.0-dpdk-tests from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

python3-uhd 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - Python3

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install python3-uhd
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 10 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: python3-uhd from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

uhd-doc 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - doc

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install uhd-doc
  • Section: science
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: uhd-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

uhd-host 4.8.0.0+ds1-2

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - host apps

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install uhd-host
  • Section: science
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 15 dependencies
  • 4 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: uhd-host from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

uhd

nix profile install nixpkgs#uhd
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/uh/uhd/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

libuhd-dev 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - headers

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd-dev
  • Section: universe/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 1 dependencies
  • 2 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libuhd-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libuhd4.6.0-dpdk 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - DPDK

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd4.6.0-dpdk
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 15 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libuhd4.6.0-dpdk from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libuhd4.6.0-dpdk-tests 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - DPDK tests

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd4.6.0-dpdk-tests
  • Section: universe/science
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 13 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libuhd4.6.0-dpdk-tests from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libuhd4.6.0t64 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - library

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install libuhd4.6.0t64
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 9 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libuhd4.6.0t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

python3-uhd 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - Python3

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install python3-uhd
  • Section: universe/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 9 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-uhd from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

uhd-doc 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - doc

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install uhd-doc
  • Section: universe/science
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: uhd-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

uhd-host 4.6.0.0+ds1-5.1build4

universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products - host apps

https://www.ettus.com/sdr-software/uhd-usrp-hardware-driver/

sudo apt install uhd-host
  • Section: universe/science
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 14 dependencies
  • 4 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: uhd-host from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

uhd 4.9.0.0-r2

USRP Hardware Driver

https://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd

sudo apk add uhd
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: uhd
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Uhd
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: uhd from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

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