Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Minimal install of GNU Radio without GUI, etc possible?

[Philip Balister]

On 08/05/2016 12:12 AM, Cinaed Simson wrote:
> On 08/04/2016 03:48 PM, Jason McHuff wrote:
>> Hello, I am building a Linux server running ClearOS (a CentOS 7.2 derivative
>> https://www.clearos.com/ ) and, among other things, want to use it to decode
>> and record calls on a P25 trunking system.
>>
>> I was able to successfully get trunk-recorder working with the GNU Radio
>> Live DVD (with great audio) and would like to get things permanently working
>> with Clear OS.  
> 
> Was this using op25?
> 
> I am wondering if it is possible to do a minimal install of
>> GNU Radio without any GUI stuff (Clear OS doesn't have a desktop) and just
>> what trunk-recorder needs to decode P25 using a RTL SDR.
> 
> I use the GUI to generate python code and then run the python code
> remotely via a SSH connection to a headless machine with a full install
> of gnuradio without using the GUI.
> 
> I presume it would be possible to build gnuradio without X11, Qt, or WX
> - but I've never tried it.

I've done it for an embedded build:

http://www.opensdr.com/posts/building-small-gnuradio-images/

You would need to work out what config options I fiddle with via the
PACKAGECONFIG line. But is definitely possible to build a usable
gnuradio without and gui parts.

Philip

> 
>>
>> I'm guessing GNU Radio 3.7.5.1-2.el7 which is available in the Clear OS
> 
> The current version is 3.7.10.1.
> 
>> repos is too old, and when I did try to install using PyBOMBS on it before I
>> ran into this issue with Apache Thrift
> 
> You don't need thrift - it's optional. I've never installed thrift and
> the builds complete - but I do have swig installed.
> 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnuradio/2016-06/msg00041.html
>> and the build-gnuradio script (I think) seemed to mess up the user database,
> 
> The email addresses pkconfig, automake and libtool issues - nothing
> about messing up a user database.
> 
>> and overall wouldn't mind doing things manually on a fresh install.
> 
> The nice thing about pybombs is it installs the dependencies - which is
> the hard part. Then you can setup your build environment. Typing mkdir
> build; cd build; cmake ../ is the easy part.
> 
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