Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Installing GNURadio on Centos 7

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Dear George,

getting the slightly dated GNU Radio 3.7.11 + matching gr-osmosdr +
matching rtl-sdr on a clean-slate CentOS is literally three lines of
command line (as root)

yum install epel-release
yum check-update
yum install gr-osmosdr 

That will give you a fully functioning GNU Radio and RTL-SDR
capabilities. However, as said, CentOS 7's packages are slightly old,
which means that rtl-sdr might not recognize your rtl dongle, if it's
"too new".

If you want (and I'd recommend that) a more modern GNU Radio, instead
of that (as root) (this is half from the top of my head, so please do
report back whether this works.

I **DO** assume you're pretty familiar with the Linux command line and
CentOS; if you are *not* familiar with both, the sensible way would be
to use a different linux distro (e.g. Fedora)  instead of CentOS and
just use its tools to install gnuradio and all you need (e.g. "dnf
install gr-osmosdr", done.). But assuming you really want to make this
work on what you are already very familiar with:

yum install epel-release yum-plugin-copr wget rpm-build
yum copr enable marcusmueller/gnuradio
yum check-update
yum install gnuradio gnuradio-devel gcc libusbx-devel make
wget h
ttps://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/source/tree/Packages/r/rtl-sdr-0.5.4-5.fc31.src.rpm

rpmbuild --rebuild rtl-sdr*.src.rpm
rpm -i ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/rtl*.rpm

Congratulations! You've just 

1. Enabled my RPM repo and installed a modern GNU Radio from there, 
2. Downloaded the bleeding edge Fedora 31 RPM source code of RTL-SDR,
and
3. built your own RTL-SDR package and 
4. installed these.

We'll do the same for gr-osmosdr; however, gr-osmosdr's spec file needs
a little work to build, so this boils down to

wget 
https://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/source/tree/Packages/g/gr-osmosdr-0.1.4-16.20170221git2a2236cc.fc31.src.rpm

rpm -i gr-osmosdr-*.src.rpm 

cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
vi gr-osmosdr.spec

(delete the "%ldconfig_scriptlets" line in that file, save and exit)

rpmbuild -bb gr-osmosdr.spec

Oh! It complains about missing dependencies: 

        gcc-c++ is needed by gr-osmosdr-0.1.4-
16.20170221git2a2236cc.el7.x86_64
        doxygen is needed by gr-osmosdr-0.1.4-
16.20170221git2a2236cc.el7.x86_64
        graphviz is needed by gr-osmosdr-0.1.4-
16.20170221git2a2236cc.el7.x86_64
        swig is needed by gr-osmosdr-0.1.4-
16.20170221git2a2236cc.el7.x86_64
        uhd-devel is needed by gr-osmosdr-0.1.4-
[………]

However, since we really don't want a fully-fledged gr-osmosdr that
supports every hardware out there, let's just ignore all the hardware
driver dependencies and just install the essential ones:

yum install gcc-c++ doxygen graphviz swig

and then tell rpmbuild to ignore the missing dependencies:

rpmbuild --nodeps --bb gr-osmosdr.spec 

cd ../RPMS/
rpm -i gr-osmosdr*.rpm


Done. You've now got a working GNU Radio 3.7.13.4 on CentOS 7, with gr-
osmosdr that gives you access to rtl-sdr dongles.

Best regards,
Marcus

On Sat, 2019-07-06 at 11:08 -0400, George S. Williams wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> What is the best way to install GNURadio on a Centos 7 system to
> include 
> rtl-sdr suppport?
> 
> I have spent 2 days following advice from the internet and still
> have 
> problems. Since so many things have been modified and un-modified, I 
> think that a fresh install of Centos 7 and GNURadio is now the way to
> go.
> 
> I have installed and can run ADS-B Aircraft Tracking with Dump1090. 
> GNURadioCompanion currently hangs on something like- "unresolved
> symbol 
> rtls_bias_tee"
> 
> Is there some verified procedure that will install what I need?
> 
> Or some advice on how to get past this error?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> George
> 
> 
> 
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