Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] .deb packages of GNU Radio 3.3.0

[Tom Rondeau]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Dimitris Symeonidis <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2 August 2011 01:30, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Dimitris Symeonidis <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi list, are there .deb packages of GNU Radio 3.3.0 anywhere? I can't
>>> find them neither in Ubuntu's repositories, nor at
>>> gnuradio.org/ubuntu. Both repositories still include 3.2.2.
>>>
>>> This page also seems out of date:
>>> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/DebianPackages
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Dimitrios Symeonidis
>>> "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
>>> a mosquito!" - Amnesty International
>>
>> Dimitrios,
>> There's been some work on this, but from Johnathan Corgan, who has
>> handled deb packages in the past, and Josh who is working on the cmake
>> build system. Unfortunately, neither of those help you out now.
>> Hopefully, though, you won't have to wait much longer for new deb
>> packages, although it's unlikely that we will be putting them into the
>> Debian repos directly.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
> Thanks Tom, it's not urgent, I built from git master. Just wanted to
> "raise that interrupt request" to see if I'm missing something.
> Otherwise, it would be useful to many people IMHO.

Yes, it would be very useful. Hopefully we can satisfy that soon!

> Also, the latest stable tarball is 3.3.0, which doesn't include
> gr-uhd. My understanding is, if you want to use it with the only
> supported driver for Matt's devices, you need to build GNU Radio from
> trunk, is that correct?

There is an actual 3.4 release that includes the gr-uhd, but we
haven't gotten it out in a usable place yet. It seems to me that the
majority of users have been using git to get the latest and greatest.
We really do need to get better about publishing the tarballs...

Tom



> Dimitrios Symeonidis
> "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with
> a mosquito!" - Amnesty International
>