# Fw: pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing files

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**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [June 19, 2015, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369 "2015-06-19T07:59:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/1 "2015-06-19T07:59:33Z")

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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

* * *

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](http://ftp.alsa-project.org) ([ftp.alsa-project.org](http://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. [gert@KDE64-tecra-A11 pybombs]$

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

h.

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**Author:** ![Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Handy_K)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/2 "2015-06-19T15:24:03Z")

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> ## a lot of data had been downloaded. (when failures occurred after untarring)
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpython2.6  
> Build failed. See output above for error messages.

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

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**Author:** ![Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Handy_K)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/3 "2015-06-22T14:11:57Z")

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On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Resolving [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))… 103.245.222.223  
> Length: 11249486 (11M) [application/octet-stream]  
> ./configure --prefix=/home/gert/gr-sandbox/target --enable-shared CC=gcc  
> [===========================================================]  
> [www.python.org](http://www.python.org)?
> 
> Does this mean that my PCLinuxOS version somehow has a say in what Python  
> version is acceptable to pybombs?
> 
> I think I will see if I can set up a completely new partition with KDE64  
> and start all over again.
> 
> Handy

That’s very strange behavior to install Python 2.6. The dependency tree  
must have identified that for some other package it was installing. This  
is, of course, the problem with trying to use a general build overlay  
system like PyBOMBS on top of the OS’s package manager: there are so  
many  
of these distros out there and they all behave differently.

Tom

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**Author:** ![Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Handy_K)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/4 "2015-06-22T16:27:29Z")

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From: Tom R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
To: Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Cc: “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Sent: Monday, 22 June 2015, 22:10  
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing  
files

That’s very strange behavior to install Python 2.6. The dependency tree  
must have identified that for some other package it was installing. This  
is, of course, the problem with trying to use a general build overlay  
system like PyBOMBS on top of the OS’s package manager: there are so  
many of these distros out there and they all behave differently.

Tom

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**Author:** ![Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Handy_K)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/5 "2015-06-26T14:51:25Z")

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Have now installed a new KDE64 in a new partition. When installing using  
src only option, the install insists on fetching Python 2.6. No change  
from my earlier testing.

Then I decided to explore using rpm,src option, as I wanted to see if  
this would attempt to search the installation database to find  
acceptable file versions.

I am just showing a snippet from the python install, the local rpm  
ignored  
…

- gnuradio  
install rpm called (python)  
rpm is not available locally \< ----------- ============= :: how is  
this tested

* * *

Here is the details of the locally installed python  
[root@localhost gert]# rpm -qa python  
python-2.7.9-1pclos2015  
[root@localhost gert]#

* * *

check remote repositories…  
Installing from source: python  
–2015-06-26 15:04:48–  
[http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
Resolving [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))… 103.245.222.223I have now  
got anew KDE64 PCLinuxOS installation to work with. I have experimented  
with several installs and got a bit more understanding of how I the ink  
it must be working.  
…

As it can be seen the python will be found from external location.

Question: Where is the determination made that local rpm not good  
enough. Is this in the file:  
/sandbox-3/pybombs/mod\_pybombs/sysutils.py?

* * *

handy

That’s very strange behavior to install Python 2.6. The dependency tree  
must have identified that for some other package it was installing. This  
is, of course, the problem with trying to use a general build overlay  
system like PyBOMBS on top of the OS’s package manager: there are so  
many of these distros out there and they all behave differently.

Tom

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**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/6 "2015-06-22T05:58:54Z")

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Thank you for replying Tom,  
I seem to be struggling to get my replies to reach the  
“[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)” but this time I think and hope for the best.

1.. You guessed right about PCLinuxOS, I do want to use that, been a  
user for about 10 years, but as far as compiling I have very little  
experience. I understand the principle but when it comes down to details  
it is a struggle. I try to stay away unless I get really enthusiastic.  
Gnuradio too fascinating so by hook or by crook I will try something  
and experiment.

2.. I did not realise that Python 2.6 is outdated, but your mention made  
me check this laptos current version and it is (this just confirming  
that this PCLinuxOS version is also using later version than 2.6):

[gert@KDE64-tecra-A11 ~]$ python -V  
Python 2.7.9  
[gert@KDE64-tecra-A11 ~]$

Also I can confirm that by inspection in my sandbox I see Python 2.6.4

3.. I mentioned I had a record of my attempts to use pybombs, and it  
seems very early in my experience I have had no trouble with Python  
installing from source. The Python 2.6 is instatlled by pybombs install,  
here is the section:

* * *

Installing from source: python  
–2015-06-11 18:43:40–  
[http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
Resolving [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))… 103.245.222.223  
Connecting to [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))|103.245.222.223|:80…  
connected.  
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently  
Location: [https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
[following]  
–2015-06-11 18:43:41–  
[https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
Connecting to [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))|103.245.222.223|:443…  
connected.  
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK  
Length: 11249486 (11M) [application/octet-stream]  
Saving to: ‘Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2’

Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2 100%[===============================\>] 10.73M  
256KB/s in 43s

2015-06-11 18:44:24 (256 KB/s) - ‘Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2’ saved  
[11249486/11249486]

Extract Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2

./configure --prefix=/home/gert/gr-sandbox/target --enable-shared  
CC=gcc CXX=g++

Configuring: (100%)  
[==========================================================]  
Building: (100%)  
[==========================================================]

make install

Installing: (100%)  
[===========================================================]  
installation ok via: src

* * *

My understanding is that installing from source means that an acceptable  
version of a required program is located somewhere on the net and  
installed.

Does that not mean in this case that pybombs want Python 2.6.4? Further  
my interpretation in above is that a version has been retrieved from  
[www.python.org](http://www.python.org)?

Does this mean that my PCLinuxOS version somehow has a say in what  
Python version is acceptable to pybombs?  
I think I will see if I can set up a completely new partition with KDE64  
and start all over again.

Handy

```
  From: Tom R. <removed_email_address@domain.invalid>

```

To: Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Cc: “[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Sent: Friday, 19 June 2015, 23:22  
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing  
files

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
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

* * *

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](http://ftp.alsa-project.org) ([ftp.alsa-project.org](http://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. [gert@KDE64-tecra-A11 pybombs]$

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

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**Author:** ![Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Handy\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Handy_K)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fw-pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing-files/242369/7 "2015-07-02T16:36:15Z")

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I am slowly getting to know the ‘pybombs’ handling I think, lot of  
guessing and trail and error. I have started to troubleshoot each  
problem in order, first one is failing install of ‘cmake’, I have tested  
a number of versions but each have same problem in PCLinuxOS KDE64.  
Build fails at approx 96%, I find main error is

[96%] Building CXX object Source/CMakeFiles/cpack.dir/CPack/cpack.cxx.o  
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/ccmake.dir/CursesDialog/ccmake.cxx.o: undefined  
reference to symbol ‘cbreak’  
/lib64/libtinfo.so.5: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command  
line  
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Question Dynamic Shared Object missing from what command line and which  
object?

I need a pointer and will follow up if I can

handy.

* * *

The reason for Python 2.6.4 install I believe seems to be from  
python.lwr, took me a while to find it::  
depends: wget  
category: baseline  
satisfy\_deb: (python2.7 || python2.6) && python-dev  
satisfy\_rpm: (python-devel \>= 2.6) && (python-devel \<= 2.8)  
source:  
wget://[http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2) \<  
— src option  
var config\_opt = “–enable-shared”  
inherit: autoconf  
From: Tom R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
To: Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Cc: “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
Sent: Monday, 22 June 2015, 22:10  
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Fw: pybombs-gnuradio-install-missing  
files

I have cropped below so just a reminder left of the question raised  
about Python 2.6.4 ------------------- handy

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Handy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

Thank you for replying Tom,

Installing from source: python  
–2015-06-11 18:43:40–  
[http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
Resolving [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))… 103.245.222.223  
Connecting to [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))|103.245.222.223|:80…  
connected.  
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently  
Location: [https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
[following]  
–2015-06-11 18:43:41–  
[https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2](https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.4/Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2)  
Connecting to [www.python.org](http://www.python.org) ([www.python.org](http://www.python.org))|103.245.222.223|:443…  
connected.  
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK  
Length: 11249486 (11M) [application/octet-stream]  
Saving to: ‘Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2’

Python-2.6.4.tar.bz2 100%[===============================\>] 10.73M  
256KB/s in 43s

That’s very strange behavior to install Python 2.6. The dependency tree  
must have identified that for some other package it was installing. This  
is, of course, the problem with trying to use a general build overlay  
system like PyBOMBS on top of the OS’s package manager: there are so  
many of these distros out there and they all behave differently.

Tom