# Rebuilding Gnuradio on fedora 17

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuilding-gnuradio-on-fedora-17/225262>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [December 25, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuilding-gnuradio-on-fedora-17/225262 "2012-12-25T10:45:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuilding-gnuradio-on-fedora-17/225262/1 "2012-12-25T10:45:50Z")

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Hi,  
I tried to install gnuradio on fedora 17 following the instructions at  
[gnu.org](http://gnu.org). I tried using build-gnuradio install script but it gave “make  
failed” error at the end. Then I tried using yum install gnuradio but i  
again failed. Then I used./build-gnuradio --verbose command but i again  
failed to install it.  
Now i want to rebuild it but before that do i need to delete some files  
or use someuninstall commands.

Please suggest

Regards  
Fabe

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**Author:** ![Ghulam\_Rasool\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@Ghulam\_Rasool\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ghulam_Rasool_B)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 11:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuilding-gnuradio-on-fedora-17/225262/2 "2012-12-26T11:39:47Z")

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> make[1]: \*\*\* [gr-blocks/lib/CMakeFiles/gnuradio-blocks.dir/all] Error 2
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> > ```
> > using yum install gnuradio but i again failed. Then I used
> > _______________________________________________
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> > ```
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> ```
> Principal Investigator
> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
> http://www.sbrac.org <http://www.sbrac.org/>
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> ```

It’s entirely possible that an interior compile stage is running out of  
memory, and bailing half-way through creating a .o, which the linker  
then  
trips over.

My advice? I’m suspecting that with only 512MB, your computer is fairly  
old, and definitely under-powered if it can’t reliably compile the  
code base. Upgrade.

Lots and lots of people have successfully built Gnu Radio on Fedora 17  
with build-gnuradio, so there’s likely nothing wrong with the build  
script as such.

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**Author:** ![Ghulam\_Rasool\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@Ghulam\_Rasool\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ghulam_Rasool_B)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuilding-gnuradio-on-fedora-17/225262/3 "2012-12-26T12:44:37Z")

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> Thanks for reply and sugestions. How much RAM do you suggest.

2GB

And if you’re on a low-end ATOM or something like that, you’ll have not  
very much fun.

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**Author:** ![Ghulam\_Rasool\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@Ghulam\_Rasool\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ghulam_Rasool_B)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rebuilding-gnuradio-on-fedora-17/225262/4 "2012-12-26T21:26:56Z")

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> Should I rebuild it using ./build-gnuradio gitfetch or there is some  
> other way for rtl-sdr

Go back through the error log, and see what happened when it tried to  
fetch rtl-sdr.