Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on VMWare

[Michael Dickens]

Up front: Did you try installing via the instructions at < http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/FedoraInstall 
 >, or via some other method?  The first few lines are somewhat  
critical to making sure the correct dependencies are available.

On Mar 21, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Mr. mollasadra wrote:
> I'm trying to install gnu radio on a fedora8 installation inside  
> VMWare.
> First, I wanted to know if that is even possible to do for  
> development (inside virtual machine development)?

Yes, this is possible.  I've just created one ... haven't tried it  
with a USRP, but the software runs scripts that don't require the USRP  
hardware.

> Second, I tried installing gnu radio and when i tried to do
> ./configure
>
> I get this:
>
>
> *********************************************************************
> The following components were skipped either because you asked not
> to build them or they didn't pass configuration checks:
>
> usrp
> gr-usrp
> gr-audio-jack
> gr-audio-osx
> gr-audio-portaudio
> gr-audio-windows
> gr-comedi
> gr-gpio
> gr-radar-mono
> gr-sounder
> gr-utils
>
> These components will not be built.
>
> Which I'm not sure if should be getting in the first place.
> Is this okay?
Yes, you might get this response.  You could get the USRP and some  
others to compile, by installing the correct dependencies.  I would  
guess that 'sdcc' isn't in PATH correctly.  See the FedoraInstall wiki  
page.
> if yes then how come when I make and install, and the run one of the  
> demos I get this:
>
>
> address@hidden audio]$ python dial_tone.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "dial_tone.py", line 23, in <module>
>     from gnuradio import gr
> ImportError: No module named gnuradio
> address@hidden audio]$
>
>
> could this be related?
> If no, then what does that first error means?

I would guess 2 primary possibilities (could be both):

1) "/usr/local/lib" is not in the ldconfig search path (e.g. like the  
issue with Debian / Ubuntu).  You can correct this via the  
instructions found in the section "Broken libtool on Debian and  
Ubuntu" at the bottom of < http://www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/UbuntuInstall 
 >.

2) "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages" is not in your shell  
environment's PYTHONPATH.  This is addressed in the FedoraInstall wiki  
page found at this top of this email.