# Distribution and integration - any debs? **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [October 6, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distribution-and-integration-any-debs/212560 "2011-10-06T10:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distribution-and-integration-any-debs/212560/1 "2011-10-06T10:22:06Z")
Hi! I’m currently trying to build a newer Debian/Ubuntu package of GNU Radio (with the 3.3 stable and 3.4git, including UHD and QT/WX GUIs). It seems the current binary distribution lacks updates (3.2 is the last version). However syncing or integrating work over many workstations (here we have ~8-10) is easier using pre-compiled debs. Is there any current work here? Compiling the Git source tree or the stable tar ball requires lots of dependency hunting, which should not be necessary on each individual work station. I’d like to be able to integrate upon a proper package management (updates, conflicts, additional stacks) to keep work compatible. While it seems the current build system is going to change to cmake… is there any progress here that could ease my part? Or does anyone have a repo, PPA, DL for an updated deb? - That could be very helpful 🙂 Best, Marius ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marius_Ciepluch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distribution-and-integration-any-debs/212560/2 "2011-10-06T12:54:11Z")
On 10/06/2011 01:21 AM, Marius Ciepluch wrote: > necessary on each individual work station. I’d like to be able to > integrate upon a proper package management (updates, conflicts, > additional stacks) to keep work compatible. There should be zero dependency hunting if you follow the build guide. Please update the wiki if this is not the case. > While it seems the current build system is going to change to cmake… > is there any progress here that could ease my part? Or does anyone have > a repo, PPA, DL for an updated deb? - That could be very helpful 🙂 I did some work based of my cmake branch to generate debian files for each component. Basically, the work consists of an example dependencies file, a mini project to build each deb file, and a script to tie it all together: [http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/cmake/debian?h=multi\_deb](http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/cmake/debian?h=multi_deb) * * * It basically works like this: The make\_debs script will build the project which generates an install manifest for all the files in each component. Then for each component, it uses the manifest to generate a mini project which builds a deb package. The end result is a directory full of debian packages. Usage: make\_debs.sh Ubuntu\_11\_04.cmake * * * As it stands, there are a few major things missing: 1. fixing minor issues to make the deb lint checker tool happy 2. providing a set of package dependencies per component, per os [http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/cmake/debian/Ubuntu\_11\_04.cmake?h=multi\_deb](http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/cmake/debian/Ubuntu_11_04.cmake?h=multi_deb) 3. and actually testing the generated deb packages * * * Most of the work here is based around the idea of generating multiple debian packages, 1 per component. CMake has no issue generating one big DEB package or 1 big RPM for the entirety of the project (you can do this w/ my next branch). Aside from that, the issue would still be gathering up a list of dependencies per OS just like in the Ubuntu\_11\_04.cmake file. We would probably want to cover all off the recent ubuntus from 10.04LTS to now and the most recent two fedoras. -josh ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marius_Ciepluch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distribution-and-integration-any-debs/212560/3 "2011-10-06T15:48:46Z")
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Marius Ciepluch [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi! > > I’m currently trying to build a newer Debian/Ubuntu package of GNU Radio > (with the 3.3 stable and 3.4git, including UHD and QT/WX GUIs). It seems > the current binary distribution lacks updates (3.2 is the last version). > However syncing or integrating work over many workstations (here we have > ~8-10) is easier using pre-compiled debs. Hi Marius, It would be great to have debian packages. Is there any particular reason you want 3.3? The latest stable release is 3.4.1. Alex ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marius_Ciepluch)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distribution-and-integration-any-debs/212560/4 "2011-10-11T11:17:22Z")
> I did some work based of my cmake branch to generate debian files for > each component. Basically, the work consists of an example dependencies > file, a mini project to build each deb file, and a script to tie it all > together: > > [http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/cmake/debian?h=multi\_deb](http://gnuradio.org/cgit/jblum.git/tree/cmake/debian?h=multi_deb) Looks useful, but I guess the repo is corrupt % git clone git://gnuradio.org/jblum.git Cloning into jblum… remote: Counting objects: 55088, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13343/13343), done. remote: Total 55088 (delta 43270), reused 52845 (delta 41272) Receiving objects: 100% (55088/55088), 24.76 MiB | 1.87 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (43270/43270), done. warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Marius\_Ciepluch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Marius_Ciepluch)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/distribution-and-integration-any-debs/212560/5 "2011-10-11T17:42:25Z")
On 10/11/2011 02:15 AM, Marius wrote: > % git clone git://gnuradio.org/jblum.git > Cloning into jblum… > remote: Counting objects: 55088, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13343/13343), done. > remote: Total 55088 (delta 43270), reused 52845 (delta 41272) > Receiving objects: 100% (55088/55088), 24.76 MiB | 1.87 MiB/s, done. > Resolving deltas: 100% (43270/43270), done. > warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. I do not like to keep a master branch on that repo. After all, it would always be out of date. Just checkout the branch that you are looking for.