Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ubunto and GnuRadio, Lovely together

[Dave Dodge]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:34:12PM -0500, Frank Brickle wrote:
> Dave Dodge wrote:
> >You can expect to have to
> >run synaptic several times and keep enabling/installing yet more
> >packages before you'll finally have a reasonably complete set of
> >headers, tools, and documentation -- unless there's some meta-package
> >that grabs everything at once, and I just haven't noticed it yet.
> 
> build-essentials

A quick glance suggests that this gives you a couple of major things
such as make, patch, and gcc, but not much else.  What I really hoped
for was a single target to give me at a minimum -dev and -doc packages
for everything in the base installation -- something more the
equivalent of a full install on other distributions.

> >...The kernel and drivers supplied by the
> >"Breezy" release are also showing their age...
> 
> ...unlike SuSE, of course ;-)

True enough.  I tried an amd64 port of Slackware on the same machine
and X couldn't even start.  Ubuntu might be slimmer than I'd like, but
it did mostly work.

                                                  -Dave Dodge