Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Freezing when running build-gnuradio

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 06/10/2011 06:11 AM, Songsong Gee wrote:
> I have some difficulties on installing gnuradio and companion with uhd
> After struggling with uhd, people advised me to use pre-made
> build-gnuradio script
> (http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio
> in http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/BuildGuide)
> However, when I run this script with superuser authority (script says
> to do it) i.e. sudo ./build-gnuradio
> A result comes as follow:
>
> ==========
> This script will install Gnu Radio from current GIT sources
> You will require Internet access from the computer on which this
> script runs. You will also require SUDO access. You will require
> approximately 500MB of free disk space to perform the build.
>  
> This script will, as a side-effect, remove any existing Gnu Radio
> installation that was installed from your Linux distribution packages.
> It must do this to prevent problems due to interference between
> a linux-distribution-installed Gnu Radio/UHD and one installed from
> GIT source.
>  
> The whole process may take up to two hours to complete, depending on the
> capabilities of your system.
> Proceed?y
> SUDO privileges are required
> Do you have SUDO privileges?y
> Continuing with script
> Installing pre-prequisites...
> ==========
>
> I think that it seems to be frozen after prompting 'Installing
> pre-prequisites...'
> I have been waiting around several hours.
> And it does not seem to read or write hard drive, HDD LED doesn't
> blink which indicates that script does something on HDD.
>
> I use Ubuntu 10.10 with VMWare Workstation. Please somebody help me :)
>
> -- 
> Seokseong Jeon (aka Songsong Gee)
>
>   
You don't run it with SUDO, it will acquire privileges via sudo as it
needs them.

Just run it as an ordinary user.


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