--- title: Install Universal Radio Hacker on CentOS using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Universal Radio Hacker for on CentOS - Investigate Wireless Protocols Like A Boss url: https://snapcraft.io/install/urh/centos --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Universal Radio Hacker on **CentOS** # Universal Radio Hacker (urh) [Johannes Pohl (jopohl)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/jopohl "View all snaps from Johannes Pohl (jopohl)") * [Johannes Pohl (jopohl)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/jopohl "View all snaps from Johannes Pohl (jopohl)") * [Devices and IoT](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=devices-and-iot) * [Security](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=security) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/urh/centos#install) #### Investigate Wireless Protocols Like A Boss The Universal Radio Hacker (URH) is a complete suite for wireless protocol investigation with native support for many common **Software Defined Radios**. URH allows **easy demodulation** of signals combined with an automatic detection of modulation parameters making it a breeze to identify the bits and bytes that fly over the air. As data often gets *encoded* before transmission, URH offers **customizable decodings** to crack even sophisticated encodings like CC1101 data whitening. When it comes to **protocol reverse-engineering**, URH is helpful in two ways. You can either manually assign protocol fields and message types or let URH **automatically infer protocol fields** with a rule-based intelligence. Finally, URH entails a **fuzzing component** aimed at stateless protocols and a **simulation environment** to perform stateful attacks. After installation, give URH access to your USB in order to access your USB based SDRs: ``` sudo snap connect urh:raw-usb ``` In order to access your SDR as non-root user, install the according **udev rules** available at . If you want to use your Soundcard as an SDR for receiving please execute: ``` sudo snap connect urh:audio-record ``` ### Package name * urh --- ### License * GPL-3.0 --- ### Last updated * 1 March 2022 - latest/stable This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues. --- ### Websites * [github.com/jopohl/urh](https://github.com/jopohl/urh "https://github.com/jopohl/urh") --- ### Contact * [Johannes.Pohl90@gmail.com](mailto:Johannes.Pohl90@gmail.com "mailto:Johannes.Pohl90@gmail.com") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/urh/centos#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on CentOS and install Universal Radio Hacker Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd Snap is available for [CentOS 7.6+](https://snapcraft.io/install/urh/centos), and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command: ``` sudo yum install epel-release ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install Universal Radio Hacker To install Universal Radio Hacker, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install urh ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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