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

[Robert McGwier]

This is my fault.  I wrote the Ubuntu instructions when we started
this Qt trip and they have been copied and pasted.  I ASSUMED we were
going to use PyQwt.   I will remove it from the gnuradio.org/trac
pages.

Bob


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>