Re: fresh install ubuntu-21.10, firmware images path?

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 2022-03-16 20:53, Wayne Roberts wrote:
> I had to wipe & fresh install this ubuntu.
> Perhaps somebody has a better explanation of whats going on for such a 
> simple thing.
> Its ubuntu 21.10, and repo has gnuradio-3.8.2 and uhd-3.15, thats ok 
> the version i need (although if somebody wants 3.9 maybe a problem 
> with Release file)
>
> /usr/bin/uhd_image_loader
> put the images into /usr/share/uhd/images
>
> uhd_config_info --print-all
> shows Images directory as nothing (no path)
>
> after i set environment variable
> export UHD_IMAGES_DIR=/usr/share/uhd/images
> then uhd_usrp_probe downloads firmware and shows my B100 correctly, 
> all OK after setting this environment var.
FOr whatever reason, they built UHD without a default images directory, 
so, you have to use the ENV variable.    This is a Ubuntu packaging 
thing, rather than
  a fault in UHD or Gnu Radio.