Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Build installation on Ubuntu

[Martin Braun]

Mark,

what, exactly, is you are trying to do?
Here's a couple of commands that I would expect do what you're asking:

$ pybombs install <package>
$ pybombs remove <package>
$ pybombs inv

All have the --help switch you can append.

M

On 05/29/2016 08:12 PM, Mark Napier wrote:
> So tried cleaning yet again, reinstalling recipes, and running init
> again.  This time it finished.  Everything is working out of a sandbox.
> 
> This is like macports: a monumental labor of love by many talented
> programmers.  I'm sure it will get more stable with time.
> 
> Would still very much like to know how to make the other commands in
> pybombs work:  the OOT modules and managing the ones already installed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark Napier
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Mark Napier <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello the camp,
> 
>     I'm struggling with an installation on Ubuntu 16.04.  Note that
>     apt-get does install a working GNUradio stack and UHD works with a
>     USRP2.  However, my goal is to install a build environment.
> 
>     For my 1st effort I used git to clone the uhd driver directory and
>     was able to get a clean build from the source and the make test all
>     worked correctly.  After make install uhd_usrp_probe finds the
>     USRP2.  However, on connecting a GRC uhd source to waterfall sink
>     the run fails.  The problem is that the UHD driver is newer than the
>     apt-get installation of gnuradio so the two are incompatible.  Also,
>     the gnuradio install doesn't seem to have the source for a build
>     environment either.
> 
>     So next effort is to try to use pybombs to install into a prefix
>     directory.  Having all the source and being able to modify it and
>     run in a local sandbox is exactly what I'm after.  Used apt-get to
>     remove uhd and gnuradio.  But I'm finding pybombs difficult to use.
> 
>     After a few emails from Martin at Ettus and a great deal of
>     tinkering with permissions I can do the following:
> 
>     $ pybombs recipes add gr-recipes
>     git+https://github.com/gnuradio/gr-recipes.git
>     $ pybombs recipes add gr-etcetera
>     git+https://github.com/gnuradio/gr-etcetera.git
>     $ pybombs prefix init  ~/gnuradio/src/prefix -R gnuradio-default
> 
>     This will init my prefix directory and start the installation and
>     compile of a sandbox.  However, it doesn't finish.  It get to
>     bladeRF and aborts with "Unable to fetch recipe bladeRF".  Whats
>     *much* more frustrating is that I can't get any other form of a
>     pybombs command line to run and give me information about the prefix
>     install.  I just get the "usage" statement.  And the init won't run
>     after the first time, I get a:
> 
>     PyBombs.prefix - ERROR - Ignoring. A prefix already exists in
>     `/home/napierm/gnuradio/src/prefix'
> 
>     So if I run:
> 
>     rm -rf gnuradio/src/prefix/*
>     rm -rf gnuradio/src/prefix/.*
> 
>     Then I can start over.  PyBOMBS is supposed to be able to show what
>     is installed and manage/add modules.  Any ideas what to try next?
> 
>     Thank you very much in advance,
> 
>     Mark Napier
> 
> 
> 
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