Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Noobie Advice -- Installing Icons, Mime Type, and Menu Items

[Jerry]

Hi Håkon

 

Big thank you !!

 

I understand that many times “instructions” are not precisely correct and may be missing pieces of code punctuations, grammar, etc.  However, as an entry level person to Linux – when reading a wiki page or readme file…it is exactly these subtle missing pieces that can drive a person crazy. 

 

With your help it installed quickly.

 

 

Best

Jerry NY2KW

 

From: Håkon Vågsether [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:59 AM
To: Jerry <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Noobie Advice -- Installing Icons, Mime Type, and Menu Items

 

Hi Jerry, 

 

if I understand you correctly, you are trying to run the executable "grc_setup_freedesktop" from within its directory. This will require you to prefix the executable with "./".  

 

"." means your current directory, but perhaps you already knew that. :) So, instead of:

 

$ sudo grc_setup_freedesktop install

 

you'll have to do:

 

$ sudo. /grc_setup_freedesktop install

 

If you want more info on this, this link might be helpful:

 

http://www.linfo.org/path_env_var.html

 

Hope I could be of any help. 

 

Best regards, 

Håkon Vågsether 

 

17. jul. 2017 3.39 p.m. skrev "Jerry" <address@hidden>:

I am just starting on in both Linux and gnuradio so steep learning curve so far.

 

I successfully built installed the latest gnuradio into my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using PyBOMBS.  All works fine from the command line.

 

I would like the convenience of a GRC desktop icon and I read on the wiki.gnuradio.org page to run the following:

 

$ cd /libexec/gnuradio/

$ sudo grc_setup_freedesktop install

 

I allowed PyBOMBS to install gnuradio into /prefix/default.  I found  /prefix/default/libexec/gnuradio which contains a green file ‘grc_setup_freedesktop’ but when I run the commands

 

$ cd /prefix/default/libexec/gnuradio/

$ sudo grc_setup_freedesktop install

 

I get an error:  sudo: grc_setup_freedesktop : command not found…but grc_setup_freedesktop is in the /libexec/ folder

 

Any advice appreciated.

 

Jerry

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