# GNURadio Installation with Hydra **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [October 8, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-installation-with-hydra/232418 "2014-10-08T16:51:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@addis\_a](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/addis_a)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-installation-with-hydra/232418/1 "2014-10-08T16:51:49Z")
Dear all, I’m a beginner of GNURadio but I’m familiar with some basis of Linux when I use C++ & IT++. Currently I’m trying to test the Hydra-0.4 package for evaluation under the last ubuntu ver 14.04.1 32bit. During the installation of gnuradio-3.2.2, there is an error which I cannot find the solution on internet. gnuradio-3.2.2$ ./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=$GR … checking for boost \>= 1.35… yes checking whether the boost::thread includes are available… yes configure: error: Could not link against libboost\_thread! ‘libboost-all-dev’ has already installed, including ‘libboost-thread-dev’, I tried both version 1.54 and 1.55 of libboost. I’ve also searched the error message in Google, even after I installed the ‘build-essential’ package, the error remains the same. I will be much appreciated if any of you have such an experience and would feedback some solutions. Regards, Jiayi (Vincent) ---
**Author:** ![ZhangS\_Jiayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e95f7d/32.png) [@ZhangS\_Jiayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ZhangS_Jiayi)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-installation-with-hydra/232418/2 "2014-10-08T17:12:16Z")
Hello Jiayi, 3.2.2 is _very_ ancient. In fact, it’s older than my involvement with GNU Radio, and I think it will be very hard to find someone how’s still using it, so asking for experience, I’m afraid, is not going to yield a lot of responses in 2014. Therefore, it will be nearly impossible to recreate an environment with all the GNU Radio dependencies that match the needs of GNU Radio 3.2.2. I’m not familiar with Hydra itself; but if it uses GR 3.2.2 you won’t be able to use it with modern USRPs, you won’t have much fun developing new applications for it, and in total it might be wise to look if you can either find a suitable substitute or port it to a modern GNU Radio. However, I’m optimistic that someone else here has used Hydra, and maybe he has some more specific hints than I do. Greetings, Marcus ---
**Author:** ![ZhangS\_Jiayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e95f7d/32.png) [@ZhangS\_Jiayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ZhangS_Jiayi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-installation-with-hydra/232418/3 "2014-10-09T16:43:26Z")
Hi Marcus, Thanks for your reply. I think the best way to us is to find the new version of Hydra package which is based on the recent GNU Radio version working with current USRP produces. Another question is that, if we development the software with GNU Radio and USRP in Ubuntu, is it easy to transfer to Fedora? Many thanks! Regards, Jiayi On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Marcus Müller [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![ZhangS\_Jiayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e95f7d/32.png) [@ZhangS\_Jiayi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ZhangS_Jiayi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-installation-with-hydra/232418/4 "2014-10-09T19:04:12Z")
Yes. Nothing in GNU Radio or UHD (the USRP driver framework) is distribution-specific, so transition from Ubuntu to Fedora should not be a problem Good luck with finding a “new version” of Hydra; I didn’t find any publication after 2009 on a quick first glance on google scholar[1]. And I couldn’t find the source code anywhere. Honestly: If you don’t find anything that proves otherwise, I’d presume that Hydra is kind of dead [2]. Please prove me wrong on this! There is the ORBIT lab that has come up with a rather comprehensive infrastructure for wireless testbeds, so you might want to look at that[3]. Greetings, Marcus [1] [http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q="Robert+W.+Heath"+hydra&hl=en&as\_sdt=0%2C5&as\_ylo=2010&as\_yhi=](http://scholar.google.de/scholar?q=%22Robert+W.+Heath%22+hydra&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2010&as_yhi=) [2] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yXqU-w9U0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yXqU-w9U0) [3] [http://www.orbit-lab.org/](http://www.orbit-lab.org/) On 09.10.2014 16:41, Zhang, Jiayi wrote: > Hi Marcus, > > Another question is that, if we development the software with GNU Radio and > USRP in Ubuntu, is it easy to transfer to Fedora? Thanks for your reply. I think the best way to us is to find the new version of Hydra package which is based on the recent GNU Radio version working with current USRP produces.