Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error While trying to install gnuradio via PyBombs

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Dear Elad,

Ubuntu 14.04 is no longer supported by the current development version
of GNU Radio.

You could instruct pyBOMBS to install gnuradio-stable instead of
gnuradio.

But I'll be honest: update your OS. It's old to ancient, and even
Canonical will not claim it's supported in 4.5 months[1]. So, before
trying to install new software, this might be an excellent point in
time to update!

Note, especially, that if you use a modern distro version, the version
of GNU Radio that you can install using `apt` is recent enough, so you
don't even have to go through a source build but can simply install via
`apt install gnuradio`!

If you want a very recent version of GNU Radio and accompanying
software, I'd go for debian (debian testing, or if you feeling bleeding
edge, debian sid) instead of Ubuntu. Canonical basically only rebrands
the debian packages[2], and with Maitland Bottoms, we've got a very
involved and competent debian package maintainer. If you choose Ubuntu,
not quite sure what to recommend: the non-LTS releases of Ubuntu
quickly *become* unsupported and thus are a bit of a hassle, whereas
the current LTS release 18.04 already contains an outdated GNU Radio
[3].

Generally: PyBOMBS is nice if you want multiple GNU Radio prefixes,
cross-compilation. If you just want to get GNU Radio, install it as
binary. On modern Linuxes, that's not a problem.

Best regards,
Marcus

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
[2] https://packages.debian.org/testing/gnuradio
[3] 
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=gnuradio

On Sat, 2018-11-17 at 12:05 +0200, Elad Shuster wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to install gnu radio on Ubuntu 14.04.5.
> Installation encounters the following error:
> 
> > PyBOMBS.install_manager - INFO - Installing package: gnuradio
> > PyBOMBS.Packager.source - WARNING - Build dir already exists: 
> > /home/dogstar/sdr/src/gnuradio/build
> > Configuring: (100%) 
> > [======================================================================================================================================================================================]
> > PyBOMBS.Packager.source - WARNING - Configuration failed. Re-trying with 
> > higher verbosity.
> > -- Build type set to RelWithDebInfo.
> > -- Extracting version information from git describe...
> > -- Compiler Version: cc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4) 4.8.4
> > Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> > -- Compiler Flags: /usr/bin/cc:::-O2 -g -DNDEBUG  -std=gnu99 
> > -fvisibility=hidden -Wsign-compare -Wall -Wno-uninitialized
> > /usr/bin/c++:::-O2 -g -DNDEBUG  -fvisibility=hidden -Wsign-compare -Wall 
> > -Wno-uninitialized
> > -- ADDING PERF COUNTERS
> > -- Building Static Libraries: OFF
> > -- Boost version: 1.54.0
> > -- Found the following Boost libraries:
> > --   date_time
> > --   program_options
> > --   filesystem
> > --   system
> > --   regex
> > --   thread
> > -- 
> > -- Checking for module SWIG
> > -- Disabling SWIG because version check failed.
> > -- 
> > -- The build system will automatically enable all components.
> > -- Use -DENABLE_DEFAULT=OFF to disable components by default.
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