Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Ubuntu 9.04 and GNU Radio

[Tom Rondeau]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Johnathan Corgan
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:34 -0400, Robert McGwier wrote:
>
>> I am not able to configure and compile GR on Ubuntu 9.04 using the
>> directions from the gnuradio.org/trac on any of three different
>> machines on which I attempted to do the upgrade.  I then tried on one
>> of them doing a raw install (the one with the least stuff on it).  The
>> same failure occurs, so updates do not appear to be broken.
>>
>> Since several of us are making a big deal of gr-qtgui right now and
>> about to roll out several things which we think will be of interest to
>> people, it was disappointing to find that pyqt-qt4-qwt5 would not
>> install, complaining about python-2.6 being too new a version.
>>
>> I think this is a temporary problem, caused by recent updates to
>> Ubuntu 9.04 repositories, but thankfully, there is an easy remedy that
>> just works.
>>
>> If you go the  PyQwt home page, and download PyQwt 5.1.0 source,  pay
>> attention to the requisites and make sure you have apt-get them (sip4,
>>  pyqt-qt4-dev, ....) ,  GR makes and runs with gr-qtgui enabled.
>
> Just FYI, however, if you aren't using gr-qtgui, GNU Radio compiles and
> installs just fine on Ubuntu 9.04, on two of my lab machines here, by
> just upgrading them with their currently installed packages from 8.10.
>
> Johnathan

And to clarify farther, we do not require PyQwt. We require the QWT
library, but not the Python version of it. When I upgraded from Ubuntu
8.10 to 9.04 last night, I have been able to build and run GNU Radio
just fine out of the box. However, I have heard that both Bob and at
least one other person has had trouble with this. I would be
interested to hear how other people are getting along with this.

Tom