Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] some questions on our ubuntu installation instructions

[Doug Geiger]

Josh Blum wrote:
> > 2) There's no sdcc-nf in Karmic, because the new version if GPL3, so
> > it's back in main. Why is there the note "*Package sdcc-nf is no
> > longer part of Ubuntu, this will not allow you to build everything
> > *"???
>
> Its needed for usrp. Is there a special non-free ubuntu repository for 
> this? Otherwise, we may have to have a link to the debian package 
> download http://packages.debian.org/lenny/sdcc-nf
Strange - I didn't notice this as my machine is an upgrade from 9.04, 
but sdcc-nf is indeed not in karmic. Apparently with v 2.9.0+ sdcc is 
back together in the main repository, so we no longer require the 
non-free package. I suppose the only way to be sure about that is to try...
Doug

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