Re: How can I alter install script to bypass dead link causing install to fail on OS X10.6.8?

[Bob]

To try to make a long gnuradio installation on iMac9,1 story short, I'll cut to the chase: My solution was to install OSX 10.14 Mojave on my unsupported iMac9,1 using Dosdude1 Patcher and then skipping mac ports entirely by using the resources at https://github.com/ktemkin/gnuradio-for-mac-without-macports where I installed 3.7 (not 3.8) python and xquartz.

It also was required to change my location in settings to United States, otherwise there was an xserver error when launching gnuradio companion. There's probably a way to work around that, but for the simple user, which I proudly consider myself to be, this is fine.

If anyone else is using Dosdude1 Patcher, be sure to set the date in Terminal to 2017 with "Date 010111117" after booting the install USB, but BEFORE proceeding with the disk preparation or the OS installation. I had various errors on various versions of OS X before I learned to set the date back to a time when the OS versions were still valid.

Given the various compile failures I had on 10.6.8 and 10.12 (I did not try 10.13), I would say it would be best to use 10.14 as it did not give any compile errors using Macports nor did it have any problems using the non-ports solution.

Thank you Michael for your help!

-Bob

On December 29, 2019 at 11:36 PM Michael Dickens <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Bob - I can't help you with the Brew issue ... so what I'm wondering is if you've looked into using MacPorts. It should be able to install GNU Radio 3.7 latest release on OSX 10.6.8 (and back to 10.4 PPC and forward to 10.15; I think it can't install on 10.4 Intel, but I'll admit that's a bit esoteric -- even more so than 10.4/5 PPC these days!). If you run into issues I can help you out! NP either way ... just offering an alternative. Good luck! - MLD

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 5:25 PM Bob < address@hidden> wrote:

I am not an expert in OS X.  I likely am missing an easy work around for a gnuradio install missing file problem.

I tried brew edit gnuradio, but there is no mention in the that script of icu4c, which is what is failing when dependencies are being addressed after I run brew install gnuradio:

Downloading https://fossies.org/linux/misc/icu4c-55_1-src.tgz
#=#=-# #
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 410 Gone
Error: Failed to download resource "icu4c"
Download failed: https://fossies.org/linux/misc/icu4c-55_1-src.tgz

What is valid is "icu4c-65_1-src.tgz" at the same address (instead of 55_1).  How can I find the script and run it locally after editing it?  I also downloaded the icu4c-55 file from a valid link and installed it manually, but the brew install gnuradio process apparently does not see this installation and goes ahead with the outdated https request.

Is there a way I can alter my host file so that when it looks in the wrong place for the 55 version, I can point it to a new place for the 55 version?

This is an old iMac9,1 on 10.6.8 which i am trying also to upgrade to 10.15, but that is a slow process and in the meantime i want to see if I can complete gnuradio so that I can play with my new rtl-sdr dongle. 

I googled for this problem and did not find anything.

thanks...

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Michael Dickens
Ettus Research Technical Support
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