Re: Centos7 installing GNU3.8 via pybombs issue

[Marcus Müller]

Oh, I was skipping past that; I was wrongly assuming you were using
CentOS 8.

Yeah, as Alex said, on CentOS 7, this will be cumbersome. If I was
forced to work on CentOS 7, I'd very much consider a podman or docker
container or simply a chroot to hold a CentOS 8 (or whatever more
modern, really) installation. In the end, if you want to do this
natively on CentOS 7, you're probably in for a bit of manual dependency
installation, pybombs won't be of much help currently, and you'll have
to isolate the newer versions of things that GNU Radio needs from the
older versions of things that your system needs - and then you're
halfway building a container, anyway.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 07.11.20 20:48, Alex Humberstone wrote:
> Dear James,
> 
> CentOS 7 is really really old. I would say that you should ask
> your customer or project leader to allow you to at least use CentOS 8.
> You're just going to have a whole set of challenges and difficulties
> using CentOS 7. Why create more unnecessary work for yourself?
> 
> Sincerely,
> Alex-M-Humberstone
> PhD Student
> Klipsch School of Electrical Engineering
> New Mexico State University (NMSU)
> Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 08:07, Marcus Müller <mmueller@gnuradio.org
> <mailto:mmueller@gnuradio.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi James,
> 
>     our software is called "GNU Radio", not just "GNU" :)
> 
>     Anyway, the relevant python-click-plugins.lwr is most definitely not
>     empty, otherwise your Pybombs wouldn't be calling `yum info
>     python3-click-plugins` (it only knows to do that because of that recipe
>     file).
> 
>     Can you run `yum info python3-click-plugins` manually and check what it
>     says? (generally, we're happier about copy&pasted text from a console
>     than about a screenshot)
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Marcus
> 
>     On 05.11.20 14:46, J P wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > For a project that I am currently doing, i'm required to use GNU3.8 on
>     > centos 7. 
>     > My virtual machine is using:
>     > gcc:9.3.1
>     > python 3.6.8
>     > pybombs 2.3.4.
>     >
>     > I followed the steps on GNU website
>     > (https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs#prefixes
>     <https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs#prefixes>
>     > <https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs#prefixes
>     <https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs#prefixes>>).
>     > During the pybombs prefix I'm running into an Error as shown below. 
>     >
>     > I have looked into the python-click-plugin.lwr which is empty; but im
>     > not sure if its meant to be.
>     >
>     > Thank you for the response in advanced.
>     >
>     > Kind Regards
>     > James 
>     >
>     >
>