Greetings, Long time lurker–daily user, but now faced with a
decision. I have noticed the fine work with Pybombs and picked up a more
hardware and thought to myself:“Hey, now is time to bite the bullet is
start using Pybombs” I don’t want that bullet to shoot me in the foot
(sorry). Question: What is the safest method to switch to Pybombs for a
working installation?My thoughts were to 1. Remove what I can manually
and start over2. Tell Pybombs to install into the ubunto
/user/local/blah dirs. Gregnz8r
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Marcus Müller [email protected]
wrote:
but you don’t have to – the prefix method will work, nevertheless.
Pybombs will only need root privileges to install missing libraries from
the Ubuntu archives.
Warning: If you plan to use Ettus USRPs, please make sure you don’t have
Ubuntu’s uhd*, libuhd* or uhd-host packages installed; these range from old
to archaeologically interesting.Best regards,
Marcus
I’d be a bit stronger than Marcus here and recommend that you definitely
remove any previous installations of GNU Radio. If you’ve gotten it
through
apt-get, then use apt-get to uninstall (and might as well purge) to make
sure you get it all and so apt-get isn’t confused about anything that
you’ve removed by hand.
While Marcus is right that the environmental setup from PyBOMBS will
provide a nice separation of everything, we still see a lot of problems
with double installs of GNU Radio, especially when they are installed
into
/usr.
Tom
Hi Greg,
pybombs is pretty safe. It will only install stuff that successfully
builds, so the chance that you wreck your installation are small, even
if you decide to install stuff into /usr/local. However, you can also
instruct pybombs to only install into /home/greg/prefix (or any other
directory of your choice), which will leave your whole system untouched.
You delete /home/greg/prefix, and everything pybombs did will be undone
You should indeed uninstall GNU Radio if you have already installed it,
but you don’t have to – the prefix method will work, nevertheless.
Pybombs will only need root privileges to install missing libraries from
the Ubuntu archives.
Warning: If you plan to use Ettus USRPs, please make sure you don’t
have Ubuntu’s uhd*, libuhd* or uhd-host packages installed; these range
from old to archaeologically interesting.
Best regards,
Marcus