On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 09:46:02AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > Good Morning. > > We at PARI have purchased a USRP for radio astronomy purposes.
Welcome! > I spent the better part of two days getting all the prerequisites installed > on > my CentOS 4 laptop; whew, there are some doozies! The worst was wxPython; > nowhere in the wiki that I could find the version required. Try reading the README's in each tarball ;-) FYI, it installs pretty much painlessly under Mandrake 10.*, FC2 and FC3 > I had built the CVS version; the release of 2.5 changed things a > little. I had built wxPython 2.4; found after reading in the source > dist for gr-wxgui that it needed 2.5, and built that. I can provide > RPMs for the packages that lend themselves to RPMs, and might even > consider packaging GNUradio proper as RPM. FYI, there are RPM's for wxPython. See http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#binaries > My qualifications for doing that are the five years I spent maintaining the > RPM's for PostgreSQL. Packaging GNU Radio into RPM's would be great! > The whole single-precision fftw was also kindof a bear, and will break the > next time yum pulls down an update. That's a little too fragile for my > liking. You can install both single and double precision. If you like, you can install the single precision in /usr/local and keep it out of yum's way. Or better yet, get somebody to fix the upstream RPM so they build and install both versions. > However, I'm excited to be working towards this; our technical director, > Charles Osborne, has been active on the SARA list about these things, and I > decided to go ahead and join the list here (makes three dozen and one lists > now) to see how things develop. Being on the list is pretty much essential for using the USRP and GNU Radio... > We plan on developing full-bore spectroscopy frontends, both local GUI and > Web > GUI, as well as RPC-type remote spectrometers (like, putting a USRP and a > small low-power PC in the feedbox of one of our 26m telescopes and sending > the data down GigE over fiber). This all sounds like good fun! > Now to save up and get a USRP for myself (ARS callsign KF4MYT). > -- > Lamar Owen Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
