diff --git a/bin/install-deps.sh b/bin/install-deps.sh
index e06d8f7..d6e9cb9 100755
--- a/bin/install-deps.sh
+++ b/bin/install-deps.sh
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -qy \
   libboost-all-dev \
   libuhd-dev \
   libvulkan-dev \
+  python3-pip \
   unzip \
   valgrind \
   wget \
   && \
+  pip install sigmf && \
   wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/sigpack/files/sigpack-1.2.7.zip -O sigpack.zip && unzip sigpack.zip && ln -s sigpack-*/sigpack . && \
   git clone https://github.com/google/flatbuffers -b v23.5.26 && \
   git clone https://github.com/nlohmann/json -b v3.11.2 && \
diff --git a/lib/sample_pipeline_test.cpp b/lib/sample_pipeline_test.cpp
index 3cdc493..96ff269 100644
--- a/lib/sample_pipeline_test.cpp
+++ b/lib/sample_pipeline_test.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(RandomFFTTest) {
          samples.size() * sizeof(std::complex<float>));
   enqueue_samples(write_ptr);
   sample_pipeline_stop(0, file, 1e3 * 1024, 100e6, 1.1, -1, "cf32_le");
+  std::string sigmf_validate_cli =
+      "sigmf_validate --skip-checksum " + file + ".sigmf-meta";
+  BOOST_TEST(std::system(sigmf_validate_cli.c_str()) == 0);
   arma::Col<std::complex<float>> disk_samples;
   disk_samples.copy_size(samples);
   FILE *samples_fp = fopen(file.c_str(), "rb");
diff --git a/lib/sample_writer.cpp b/lib/sample_writer.cpp
index dbe290a..08b09fc 100644
--- a/lib/sample_writer.cpp
+++ b/lib/sample_writer.cpp
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ void SampleWriter::write_sigmf(const std::string &filename, double timestamp,
       record;
   record.global.access<sigmf::core::GlobalT>().datatype = datatype;
   record.global.access<sigmf::core::GlobalT>().sample_rate = sample_rate;
+  record.global.access<sigmf::core::GlobalT>().version = "1.0.0";
   auto capture =
       sigmf::Capture<sigmf::core::DescrT, sigmf::capture_details::DescrT>();
   capture.get<sigmf::core::DescrT>().sample_start = 0;