I really thought this has become easier now. After my attempts using pybombs and creating a whole mess in my system I decided to manually download and build all from source, uhd, gnuradio, and all the other stuff, good a dozen of gr-something packages. Then I made a simple script that git pulls and builds and installs everything in the correct order, to keep up to date.
The idea of pybombs is great, having almost the whole gnuradio world in one place, and maybe I will create a new VM just to try it out after its change to 2.0 :) Ralph. From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Rob Kossler
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 3:37 PM
To: Martin Braun
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] installing UHD using PyBOMBS 2.0 Thanks for all the replies. Following Martin's suggestion, I added the appropriate line to config.yml. After this my install command attempted the source install, but died with the same problem that my gnuradio install died yesterday -- problem finding boost components. I followed Derek's suggestion to install boost 1.54. Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem I'm having with the uhd install. (See attached txt file for details.) Next, I edited the boost.lwr recipe and changed all "1.53" to "1.54" and all "1_53" to "1_54". Now, the uhd install works. I'm not sure if this was the right way to fix the problem but it worked for me. However, I see that it installed the latest master (UHD_003.010.git-0-42a3eeb6) even though I had modified the uhd recipe file with the line "gitrev: tags/release_003_009_002" which is what has worked for me in the past in order to get a specific version. Perhaps the install is not using the recipe file I think... Martin, I do have one question about the lines you suggested that I add to config.yml. Without those lines, shouldn't the command "pybombs install uhd" have done a binary install? Yesterday, I found no evidence of a binary install, but today I found an old version 3.5.5. I'm not sure if this installed during the uhd install or when I later tried to install gnuradio. In any event, I am wondering if there is a way to configure pybombs to do a binary install but to use a specific version such as 3.9.2? Rob On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote: Hey Rob,
thanks for trying PyBOMBS and sorry for the lack of an announcement on
usrp-users. I will announce it there once we release the next version
(which will be very soon) because I've fixed some issues and also made
UHD installation easier.
In your case, to install UHD, do the following:
1) Create a prefix. Run one of these commands:
a) $ pybombs prefix init -a default ~/path/to/prefix
b) $ sudo pybombs prefix init -a default /usr/local
The latter will put all source installs in the system, the former will
put them somewhere in your home dir. For the record: Most people will
want a).
2) Define this as the default prefix:
$ pybombs config default_prefix default
This step is not required, but if lets you skip the -p option for all
following PyBOMBS commands.
3) Now comes the complicated part, which will be changed in the next
version. PyBOMBS provides no defaults on which packages to install from
source rather than from apt-get or whatever. You need to configure your
prefix to override system defaults to source. To do this, edit the
<prefix>/.pybombs/config.yml file and add the lines from here:
https://github.com/gnuradio/pybombs/blob/master/pybombs/skel/.pybombs/config.yml
(or just copy that file there).
4) Now you can just do 'pybombs install uhd' and it will install UHD
from source to your prefix. At any time, you can then 'pybombs update
uhd' to re-pull master and re-build.
Hope this helps!
M
On 01/28/2016 12:11 AM, Rob Kossler wrote:
> Hi,
> I just setup a new system and as I attempted to install UHD via PyBOMBS,
> I stumbled on the PyBOMBS 2.0 changeover. Since I typically only follow
> the usrp-users list and not the gnuradio list, I didn't see the
> announcement of this changeover.
>
> I am having trouble with the install. I really am only interested in
> installing UHD (source code install), so I tried the following line, but
> nothing really happened. Afterwards, I do not see any UHD installation
> in my prefix location. Also, it is not clear to me how I would choose
> whether this install should be a source install or binary install.
>
> $ pybombs install uhd
> PyBombs.install - INFO - No packages to install.
>
> Any idea why the above does not seem to do anything?
>
>
> When this didn't seem to work, I decided to go ahead and install
> gnuradio since previous PyBOMBS installs of this type would also install
> UHD as a source code install. This install failed - the results are in
> the attached TXT file. Basically, it looks like it can't find some
> boost component, but it is not clear to me why it couldn't fix the
> problem and install what it needed. There are plenty of boost warnings,
> but I'm not sure if they are benign or not.
>
> Let me know any suggestions. Thanks.
>
> Rob
>
>
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