Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] pybombs difficulty

[Iluta V]

Hi Logan,

Here is a full set of commands for installing in your own home directory via pybombs:

git clone https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs
cd pybombs
./pybombs config

sudo rm -rf /home/gnuradio
sudo mkdir /home/gnuradio
sudo chown -R linux /home/gnuradio /home/linux/pybombs
rm -rf inventory.dat src
address@hidden:~/pybombs$ ./pybombs install -v -v gnuradio

 

add gnuradio and all apps you want, then change path to:

source /home/gnuradio/setup_env.sh
address@hidden:~$ sudo gedit .bashrc
address@hidden:~$ source ~/.bashrc

Good luck! :)

BR,

Iluta

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Washbourne, Logan <address@hidden> wrote:

So I changed the install prefix to /home/username/thesis/target and then deleted the inventory.dat file and removed the previous install prefix folder(this was usr/local, but it actually ended up in usr/local/share, I'm thinking this was a problem because I think there are lingering files). I'm having problems now, I can't remove or update any packages, it states that there is not an inventory file so it creates an empty one and then states there is nothing to do. Is there a way to have it generate a new inventory file? I can't install any packages because they seem to still be in the pybombs folder. Do you have any advice Nathan?

My initial reasoning for changing the install prefix to usr/local/ was to enable me to create my own OOT modules and build the tutorial examples. When pybomb's install prefix was in my home directory it kept throwing an error about the CMake files. I tried to change the install prefix locations within those CMake files but that didn't seem to fix my problems.

I'm really starting to learn that a little knowledge can be a pretty dangerous thing haha.

I appreciate your time and help,

Logan Washbourne

Electrical Engineering Graduate Student

(Electromagnetics)

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:06 PM, West, Nathan <address@hidden> wrote:

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You only have to use sudo with pybombs if you don't have write permission to your prefix. In general it's best to avoid using sudo and pybombs together if possible (with the exception of when pybombs asks you for sudo password when using apt-get install).  You can either set the prefix to somewhere your user normally has write access to (typically your home directory), or alter permissions of your prefix. As an example, if you were setting your prefix to /opt/gnuradio/pybombs-v3.7.8  the least obtrusive way to do this is
    sudo mkdir -p /opt/gnuradio/pybombs-v3.7.8 # assuming your user doesn't have write access to /opt/gnuradio you need sudo to mkdir

    sudo chown myusername:mygroupname /opt/gnuradio/pybombs-v3.7.8

    ./pybombs install gnuradio

In practice I usually make a group on my machines called 'developer' and add my user to it, then give the developer group ownership or write access (depends on what I feel like when I set up a new machine) to /opt. That lets me write whatever to /opt without sudo (don't forget you need to login after adding your user to group for it to take effect). The same principle can be used with /usr/local or any other directory, but IMHO you should at least make your work an extra layer deep so you can just rm -rf the whole prefix (without root!) and not have much to worry about damaging.

Cheers,

Nathan

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Washbourne, Logan <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks Nathan. Should I have to use sudo when using pybomb commands, now that the installation prefix is outside of my home directory(because I now I have to use sudo when using pybomb commands)?

Logan Washbourne

Electrical Engineering Graduate Student

(Electromagnetics)

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:38 PM, West, Nathan <address@hidden> wrote:

Logan,

For your case deleting inventory.dat would do the trick of effectively resetting pybombs state (and if your done with an install rm the prefix)

Mike,

Pybombs is hiding the true error. Cmake failed for either VOLK or GNU Radio. Try running pybombs again with -v -v

On Monday, August 3, 2015, <address@hidden> wrote:

Mike,

When I ran into this problem, I had to reinstall pybombs. I think the problem lies in changing the installation prefix after installing pybombs.

I'm sure there is another way to fix this, I just don't know what it is.

When I reinstalled pybombs, I defined the installation prefix when the several prompts are asked at the beginning.

Sent from my Cyanogen phone

On Aug 3, 2015 4:39 PM, Mike Markowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I use gentoo at home and have no difficulty keeping gnuradio up to date.
>
> At work we're on a standalone network (no internet) so occasionally bring computers home to update them.  Lately, I've been having trouble with pybombs.  Using a freshly installed ubuntu 15.04, then doing an
>
>   apt-get update
>   apt-get upgrade [not sure the update was necessary]
>
> I first used
>
>   apt-get install gnuradio
>
> Thinking better of it, I ran
>
>   apt-get remove gnuradio
>   apt-get autoremove
>
> Then went with pybombs
>
>   git clone git://github.com/pybombs/pybombs
>   cd pybombs
>   ./pybombs config [use install path /usr/local/gnuradio]
>   ./pybombs install gnuradio
>
> And after several tries continue to receive this error:
>
> [...many lines of install...]
> Unpacking liblog4cpp5-dev (1.0-4) ...
> Setting up liblog4cpp5-dev (1.0-4) ...
> installation ok via: deb
> Installing from source: gnuradio
> Cloning into 'gnuradio'...
> Checking connectivity... done.
> Cloning into 'volk'...
> remote: Counting objects: 5450, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
> remote: Total 5450 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 5440
> Receiving objects: 100% (5450/5450), 1.54 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (3918/3918), done.
> Checking connectivity... done.
>  
>     CC=gcc CXX=g++ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/gnuradio  -DENABLE_DOXYGEN=OFF
>
> Configuring: (100%) [==========================================================]
> Configuration failed. Re-trying with higher verbosity.
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> Build failed. See output above for error messages.
>
> Any hints as to what is going wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

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