macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install urhlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Install urh with Homebrew, dnf, Nix, pacman, zypper
Universal Radio Hacker. Version 2.10.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install urhFedora Rawhide package metadata · urh · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#urhnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ur/urh/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S urhArch Linux sync databases · urh · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install urhopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · urh · source: download.opensuse.org
overview
Package summary
Universal Radio Hacker
Project links
Commands and aliases
- urh
- urh_cli
history
Project history and usage
Universal Radio Hacker is a wireless-protocol investigation suite for software-defined radio users. The upstream README describes support for demodulation, decoding, protocol reverse engineering, fuzzing, simulation, and native integration with common SDR devices.
Project history
The public repository dates to 2016. The README presents URH as both an interactive tool and a research artifact: it links Black Hat Arsenal 2017 and 2018 badges and asks researchers to cite the 2018 USENIX WOOT paper by Johannes Pohl and Andreas Noack.
Adoption history
URH spread through security and SDR communities rather than through one language ecosystem. The official README documents PyPI/pipx installation, Windows installers, macOS DMG and Homebrew installation, source execution, Docker images, and distribution packages for Arch Linux, Gentoo, Fedora, openSUSE, NixOS, and FreeBSD; the batch input also lists Homebrew, Fedora, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE package entries.
How it is used
Users install URH to record wireless signals, inspect modulation and bitstreams, assign or infer protocol fields, apply custom decodings such as CC1101 data whitening, fuzz stateless protocols, and simulate stateful attacks. The package exposes both `urh` and `urh_cli`, which makes it useful from desktops and scripted workflows.
Why package nerds care
URH is notable to package maintainers because it combines a Python application, native extensions, SDR hardware backends, GUI distribution, CLI use, udev rules, PyPI wheels, Homebrew, desktop installers, and distro packages. That mix makes it a practical example of packaging a security research tool with hardware-adjacent dependencies.
Timeline
- 2016: Public GitHub repository metadata records repository creation.
- 2017: README badges identify Black Hat Arsenal USA 2017 participation.
- 2018: README badges identify Black Hat Arsenal Europe 2018 participation.
- 2018: README citation block points to the USENIX WOOT paper on URH.
- README era: Documented package-manager availability across major Linux and BSD-style channels plus Homebrew for macOS.
Related projects
- URH's README links it to common SDR devices and to wireless-security workflows; the article list includes examples involving HackRF, RTL-SDR, 433 MHz remotes, pagers, weather stations, wireless blinds, and keyboard/presenter attacks.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 4 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 1 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
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
urh | cli | global executable | |
urh_cli | cli | global 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 version2.10.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/jopohl/urhnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:urh |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.10.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/urh |
| Homepage | https://github.com/jopohl/urh |
| Repository | https://github.com/jopohl/urh |
| Upstream docs | https://github.com/jopohl/urh#readme |
| License | GPL-3.0-only |
| Source archive | https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/dd/75/e3ce1cd756dc47ab42166d1ecfb9a9f5e34e2fcf78aeed0b9392313dc057/urh-2.10.0.tar.gz |
| Dependencies | hackrf, numpy, pyqt, python@3.14 |
| Build dependencies | pkgconf |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | urh |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
urh
nix profile install nixpkgs#urh- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Urh
dnf95%
urh 2.10.0-5.fc45
Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols like a boss
sudo dnf install urh- License: Apache-2.0 AND GPL-2.0-only
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: urh
- 15 dependencies
- 5 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Urh
pacman95%
urh 2.10.0-2
Universal Radio Hacker: investigate wireless protocols like a boss
sudo pacman -S urh- License: GPL-3.0-only
- Architecture: x86_64
- 9 dependencies
- 13 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Urh
zypper95%
urh 2.10.0-1.5
Tool for investigating unknown wireless protocols
sudo zypper install urh- License: GPL-3.0-only
- Category: Productivity/Hamradio/Other
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: urh
- 20 dependencies
- 4 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Urh
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment