Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PyBOMBS GUI Bug?

[West, Nathan]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Richard Bell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed PyBOMBS on Ubuntu 14.04. I'm noticing that sometimes the
> icon labels are readable, but a lot of them are off the screen and can't be
> selected, like UHD. The last icon available to install for me when this
> happens is osmo-tetra.
>
> To overcome this, I close PyBOMBS and restart it. Usually after this, I am
> able to see all the icons, but they are squished in such a way that I can't
> read the labels of that are missing a thumbnail picture. I can read UHD,
> gnuradio, gnss-sdr, etc. because those have non-default thumbnails. All the
> icons with ? thumbnail pics are unreadable.
>
> Is this a known bug and is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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It sounds like you're talking about the app_store.py script, which is
basically experimental and not guaranteed to work well (as you're
experiencing). Use pybombs from the command line, it's really simple.
Just run ./pybombs install "whatever package you want".