# Zedboard and Pybombs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zedboard-and-pybombs/241526>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [April 11, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zedboard-and-pybombs/241526 "2015-04-11T23:19:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/musicdenotation)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zedboard-and-pybombs/241526/1 "2015-04-11T23:19:04Z")

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Hello,

I’m trying to get GNU Radio installed on a Zedboard and decided to give  
pybombs a shot. It’s a take on Ubuntu 12.04 called Xillinux (so that my  
group is able to interact with the FPGA).

After running these few lines

- git clone git://github.com/pybombs/pybombs
- cd pybombs
- ./pybombs install gnuradio

My Zedboard took a while to do the installation, but claims 100%  
installation… and then nothing. I’m looking in /usr/local/bin for any  
of  
the gr .elf files. As far as I can tell pybombs hasn’t actually been  
installed anywhere. Am I missing something? Should I be doing something  
else entirely when working with an embedded version of Ubuntu? We really  
want to stick with this since we know how to send data to and from the  
FPGA  
already.

Thanks,  
Keyur

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**Author:** ![Keyur\_Parikh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@Keyur\_Parikh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Keyur_Parikh)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zedboard-and-pybombs/241526/2 "2015-04-12T00:37:27Z")

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Keyur,  
You’ll want to do ‘./pybombs env’ to create a setup\_env.sh script that  
you  
can source to set up the environment. Assuming you took all the defaults  
when you ran pybombs, the installation actually went into a directory  
called target located in the same directory where you cloned the pybombs  
git repo. That is where you should find the setup\_env.sh script.

- Greg

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**Author:** ![Keyur\_Parikh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@Keyur\_Parikh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Keyur_Parikh)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zedboard-and-pybombs/241526/3 "2015-04-12T02:48:03Z")

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So after getting your email I erased the pybombs folder I had and did  
these  
steps

- git clone git://github.com/pybombs/pybombs
- cd pybombs/
- ./pybombs env [accepted all defaults]
- cd …
- cd target/
- source setup\_env.sh
- cd …
- cd pybombs/
- ./pybombs install gnuradio

Again ran to 100% completion (in an usually short amount of time) and I  
still can’t find any of the related files after searching for gr\_\*

When running

- ./pybombs info gnuradio
- ./pybombs list gnuradio

it seems like it’s just choosing not to install all the necessary  
dependencies.

I went through and installed the packages listed as dependencies of  
gnuradio one by one before again trying

- ./pybombs install gnuradio

and got the old

PyBombs.sysutils - WARNING - deb\_exists: could not find a downloadable  
version of libboost1.53-dev  
PyBombs.sysutils - WARNING - deb\_exists: Does not satisfy  
requirement…downloadable version of libboost-dev (1.48.0) is not \>=  
1.53

Before again seeing

Installing 100% [====…===]

And then being returned to the pybombs directory, again with no gr\_\*  
search  
results.

Thanks,  
Keyur