# Gnuradio-companion-3.7.7.1 debian package **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [June 19, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372 "2015-06-19T11:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Detlef_R)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/1 "2015-06-19T11:08:11Z")
Hi, I need a GnuRadio debian package for version 3.7.7.1 to be installed in many different computers. I’ve tried creating it myself but I run into many difficulties. For example the command gnuradio-config-info --prefix –prefsdir --sysconfdir was pointing to the folder where I created the debian. I found a package for Arch linux in [https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86\_64/gnuradio/](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gnuradio/) And I was going to try to convert it to a debian. Before I do that. Is there a repo where I can find this? Ideally gnuradio-companion (including gnuradio) version 3.7.7.1 for both x86\_64 and i636 debian package that will be installed in an Ubuntu 12.04 system. Thanks a lot, Murray ---
**Author:** ![Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Murray_T)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 11:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/2 "2015-06-19T11:43:49Z")
Hi Murray, you’d typically do something like: cmake -DCMAKE\_INSTALL\_PREFIX=/usr … to match what debian expects. Then, instead of simply installing stuff there, you install into your fake root directory using make make install DESTDIR=/home/murray/fake\_root/whatever That will only bend around the paths where files are copied to, not the paths contained in the files themselves Best regards, Marcus ---
**Author:** ![Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Murray_T)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/3 "2015-06-19T15:43:20Z")
Hi! > user@pc:~$ gnuradio-config-info > ImportError: libboost\_system.so.1.58.0: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory This means that the gnuradio-config-info was definitely built with another version of boost (1.58) than what is found at the moment you start it. The point about distributions is that they strive to keep all their libraries coherent in one release. So, although the install script might have installed the modern boost version correctly and set up some paths so that on your first PC, linux knows where to look for boost 1.58, on the other, this won’t work automatically. You can find out where the libboost\_system.so.1.58.0 is on the system where it works by running “ldd $(which gnuradio-config-info)”. So the question is: which tool did you exactly use to install GNU Radio? If you use pyBOMBS, you get the ability to install everything, including updated versions of boost etc., into a specific private directory, and generate a script that sets up all paths accordingly. You can then just copy that prefix and script over to the other PC; that’s pretty distribution agnostic, but to be honest: If you wanted to make packages for all the things that GNU Radio likes to have a bit more recent, you’d be basically producing packages for half the development libraries that GNU Radio needs – 12.04 is 3 years old… Best regards, Marcus ---
**Author:** ![Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Murray_T)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/4 "2015-06-19T14:53:40Z")
Thanks for that Marcus, I got around that first step. My computer runs Ubuntu 12.04 with libboost 1.48 and it has a working gnuradio installation v3.7.7.1-120-g67463e74 from the script in the web. I used that computer to create the debian package based on [GitHub - gnuradio/gnuradio: GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem](https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio.git) tag v3.7.7 and I installed it in another Ubuntu 12.04 with libboost 1.48. get the following error message when running this command or any simple gnuradio script: user@pc:~$ gnuradio-config-info ImportError: libboost\_system.so.1.58.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I first thought that 3.7.7 must depend on libboost 1.58 but it works well with 1.48 when I use the script to install it so, how did that dependency get there? My debian has installed files into the folders /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share, /usr/include and my control file depends on the following packages: Depends: libfftw3-3, libpulse0, python, python-numpy, python-gtk2, python-wxgtk2.8, python-qwt5-qt4, python-lxml, python-cheetah, python-qt4, python-qwt5-qt4, libpulse0, libasound2, alsa-base, libboost-program-options1.48.0, libboost-filesystem1.48.0, libboost-thread1.48.0, libqtcore4, libsdl1.2debian, libgsl0ldbl, liborc-0.4-0, libusb-1.0-0, sdcc I’m using PATH = /usr/bin LD\_LIBRARY = /usr/lib PYTHONPATH = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/:/usr/lib/python2.7/:/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages PKG\_CONFIG\_PATH = /usr/lib/pkgconfig Could someone point me in the right direction please? Cheers, Murray 2015-06-19 10:42 GMT+01:00 Marcus Müller [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Murray_T)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/5 "2015-06-19T17:37:52Z")
Hi Murray, that’s strange: > ImportError: libboost\_system.so.1.58.0: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory contradicts > libboost\_system.so.1.48.0 =\> /usr/lib/libboost\_system.so.1.48.0 > (0xb71d8000) There’s something seriously wrong about this situation. If not gnuradio-config-info was linked against boost 1.58 symbols, then one of the libraries it tries to use one your second PC is. That error comes from /somewhere/. Maybe you’d want to compare the “ldd $(…)” output of both systems, especially the individual paths of the libraries. Did you happen to build a custom boost on the second machine at some point? Best regards, Marcus ---
**Author:** ![Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Murray_T)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/6 "2015-06-19T17:29:41Z")
Hello again 2015-06-19 14:35 GMT+01:00 Marcus Müller [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Hi! > > user@pc:~$ gnuradio-config-info > ImportError: libboost\_system.so.1.58.0: cannot open shared object file: > No such file or directory > > This means that the gnuradio-config-info was definitely built with another > version of boost (1.58) than what is found at the moment you start it. This is what I thought too but sudo find / -name “libboost\*” only finds libraries for boost 1.46 and 1.48. The point about distributions is that they strive to keep all their > libraries coherent in one release. So, although the install script might > have installed the modern boost version correctly and set up some paths so > that on your first PC, linux knows where to look for boost 1.58, on the > other, this won’t work automatically. > You can find out where the libboost\_system.so.1.58.0 is on the system > where it works by running “ldd $(which gnuradio-config-info)”. The system works but win a Gnuradio installed from the build\_gnuradio script, not the debian package that I built. user@pc:~$ ldd $(which gnuradio-config-info) linux-gate.so.1 =\> (0xb7760000) libgnuradio-runtime-3.7.8git.so.0.0.0 =\> /usr/local/lib/libgnuradio-runtime-3.7.8git.so.0.0.0 (0xb7671000) libboost\_program\_options.so.1.48.0 =\> /usr/lib/libboost\_program\_options.so.1.48.0 (0xb7612000) libpthread.so.0 =\> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xb75f6000) libstdc++.so.6 =\> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7511000) libgcc\_s.so.1 =\> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc\_s.so.1 (0xb74f3000) libc.so.6 =\> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb7349000) libgnuradio-pmt-3.7.8git.so.0.0.0 =\> /usr/local/lib/libgnuradio-pmt-3.7.8git.so.0.0.0 (0xb730b000) libvolk.so.1.0 =\> /usr/local/lib/libvolk.so.1.0 (0xb71fa000) libboost\_filesystem.so.1.48.0 =\> /usr/lib/libboost\_filesystem.so.1.48.0 (0xb71dc000) libboost\_system.so.1.48.0 =\> /usr/lib/libboost\_system.so.1.48.0 (0xb71d8000) libboost\_thread.so.1.48.0 =\> /usr/lib/libboost\_thread.so.1.48.0 (0xb71bf000) librt.so.1 =\> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xb71b6000) libm.so.6 =\> /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb7189000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7761000) liborc-0.4.so.0 =\> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liborc-0.4.so.0 (0xb70f9000) > So the question is: which tool did you exactly use to install GNU Radio? I used cmake with the following parameters: cmake -DCMAKE\_INSTALL\_PREFIX=/usr SYSCONFDIR=/etc -DENABLE\_STATIC\_LIBS=False -DENABLE\_DOXYGEN=False -DENABLE\_GR\_WXGUI=OFF -DENABLE\_GR\_VOCODER=OFF -DENABLE\_GR\_DTV=OFF -DENABLE\_GR\_ATSC=OFF .. > If you use pyBOMBS, you get the ability to install everything, including > updated versions of boost etc., into a specific private directory, and > generate a script that sets up all paths accordingly. You can then just > copy that prefix and script over to the other PC; that’s pretty > distribution agnostic, but to be honest: If you wanted to make packages for > all the things that GNU Radio likes to have a bit more recent, you’d be > basically producing packages for half the development libraries that GNU > Radio needs – 12.04 is 3 years old… I wish I could upgrade my Ubuntu but I’m stack with 12.04 for other reasons. I’ll try the pybombs way and also the same method for gnuradio 3.7.5 to check that I get the same error > Best regards, > Marcus Thank you for your help Murray ---
**Author:** ![Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Murray\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Murray_T)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gnuradio-companion-3-7-7-1-debian-package/242372/7 "2015-06-22T15:23:13Z")
Hi Marcus, I used a new installation of 12.04. I got the sources for 3.7.7.1 instead of 3.7.7 this time. The generated debian package works fine. My previous environment could have been wrong or maybe it was something in 3.7.7. In any case, thanks a lot for your help. Cheers, Murray 2015-06-19 16:36 GMT+01:00 Marcus Müller [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):