GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems. If you want to enable gnuradio-companion (GNU Radio Companion *GRC* is a graphical tool for creating signal flow graphs and generating flow-graph source code), you must install at least: lxml and numpy and then qwt for qtgui or wxPython for wxgui. Optional dependencies: uhd, cppunit, gsl, orc, jack-audio-connection-kit, portaudio, SDL2, and Sphinx (the last is to generate additional docs).