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Here are the ways to install GNURadio on your Ubuntu machine
Get source git clone http://git.gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git
or get weekly tarballs from here.
Check dependencies Here
$ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake ../ $ make $ sudo make install
The script check dependencies and download if not met any. So just download and execute the script.
Download build script from here.
chmod +x build-gnuradio
./build-gnuradio
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gqrx-releases
sudo apt-get install gnuradio