Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing files

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Handy Kirk <address@hidden> wrote:

After a lot of work, I am a beginner concerning gnuradio, only an average linux user concentration on PCLinuxOS, now have an awfull lot of files installed in my sandbox.  I have had many goes at installing 'pybombs' and I think I have an understanding of the concept of installing from source.

What really knocked me about was a very precise position during the process the file 'boost'  would terminate the process without any error message that I could find. The lack of finding the reason/errors probably because I know very little about compiling details.

What came to my rescue was during one attempt the 'boost' download/install process became atrocciously slow but at the same time I could see it was trying to connect to my usual mirror (internode in Australia). I gave up but then a day of two later boots installed and the process could continue. (A resh install).

Ufotunately I encounterd more files where the process simply was terminated with the command prompt but also reason quite clear, such as "source not found.." Others it was not so clear to me, so I decided to continue anyway as some files by inspection in src seemed to indicate that a lot of data had been downloaded. (when failures occurred after untarring)

I edited the config.dat and just kept telling the process that the programs were installed. This way I arrived at the end, with 'gnuradio' beeing the last file to be installed.

I had in mind to test the "./pybombs update" expecting this to clearly tell me that a file would be missing.  That did not happen.

I just got a long list of files with "True" at the end

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I have a record of my attempted install in chronological order.

 

Here is my first met really failing proces:

alsa Connecting to ftp.alsa-project.org (ftp.alsa-project.org)|77.48.224.243|:21... connected.
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [smixer-python.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/gert/gr-sandbox/pybombs/src/alsa/modules/mixer/simple'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gert/gr-sandbox/pybombs/src/alsa/modules/mixer'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gert/gr-sandbox/pybombs/src/alsa/modules'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Build failed. See output above for error messages.
address@hidden pybombs]$

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What is this telling me, is there a fix I can apply.

h.

This really seems like an issue with your connection and/or the OS you're using. The call to Python 2.6 is particularly strange -- no Linux distro for the past few years should be shipping with 2.6.

Why did you choose PCLinuxOS? Are you more familiar with that or using it for another purpose? If you're not but fairly new to Linux in general, I'd suggest using Ubuntu of Fedora, which are used by many more people and have much more support.

Tom