This might be related to an issue I ran into with 14.04.2 when making the
Live SDR images based on that.

If you install 14.04.2 from CD, then do:

$ apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev-lts-utopic mesa-common-dev-lts-utopic

...then try build-gnuradio, does it work?


On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Peter Witkowski <[email protected]>
wrote:

> All,
>
> My hesitation to use PyBOMBS was only a function of the fact that I've
> have had really good success using the build-gnuradio script in the past.
> I've deployed GNU Radio and UHD using Marcus's awesome script several times
> and never had an issue.
>
> Also, I can confirm that the problem (at least on my end) is tied to
> Ubuntu 14.4.2 (released a few weeks ago).  When I did a clean install of
> 14.4.1, the script ran just fine.  The problem can be duplicated by
> installing 14.4.2 (using the latest download from the Ubuntu site) and then
> attempting to follow the install instructions.  I detailed the symptoms I
> was experiencing in my original e-mail.  Note that even with -v enabled, no
> errors were printed.  It looked like it was installing all the
> prerequisites, but then later said it couldn't find git, cmake, etc.
>
> The really weird thing (and this makes me think that Ubuntu might have
> something up with their current install ISO) is that if I install 14.4.1
> from CD and then patch it to the latest version, I can still run
> build-gnuradio just fine.
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Richard Bell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Are you guys avoiding pybombs for a reason, or do you just not feel
>> comfortable with it? If you're aware of pybombs and have a reason for
>> avoiding it, then stop reading here.
>>
>> Pybombs works really well on Ubuntu 14.04. I've installed UHD + GnuRadio
>> on multiple machines without a problem. Using it to install all
>> dependencies and UHD and GnuRadio is as simple as the following few lines
>> of code:
>>
>> 1) cd to the directory of your choice
>> 2) git clone https://github.com/pybombs/pybombs.git && cd pybombs
>> 3) ./pybombs install gnuradio (this will install all dependencies needed
>> for gnuradio including uhd)
>> 4) ./pybombs env (creates an environment variables file for you)
>> 5) add this to your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file, whichever you use:
>> source /<path_to_step1_directory>/target/setup_env.sh
>> 6) start her up: gnuradio-companion
>>
>> That's all there is to it.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Rich
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  So, if I could get an actual, detailed, error-report when
>>> build-gnuradio fails, I can look into fixing it.
>>>
>>> It has worked well on Ubuntu 14.04 since 14.04 was released, but it may
>>> be the case that some system update changed something that buggered up an
>>> assumption that build-gnuradio is making.  But without a complete log of a
>>> "-v" run,
>>>  I have no way of figuring out what's going wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-03-05 03:15, krishnachand leela wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hello Peter
>>>
>>> I had installed yesterday on my laptop with Ubuntu 14.04
>>> I tried using WGET......... but I got the similar problems like you
>>> regarding the git..
>>> So, I have installed it from source and haven't got any problem.
>>>
>>> You can follow these steps for installing it from source
>>>
>>> Thee are two methods to install but I preferred to install it from source
>>>
>>> 1)Install Dependencies:
>>>
>>> //Copy the below commands and paste it in terminal(all at a single
>>> time)//
>>> sudo apt-get -y install libfontconfig1-dev libxrender-dev libpulse-dev
>>> swig g++ automake autoconf libtool python-dev libfftw3-dev libcppunit-dev
>>> libboost-all-dev libusb-dev fort77 sdcc sdcc-libraries libsdl1.2-dev
>>> python-wxgtk2.8 git-core guile-1.8-dev libqt4-dev python-numpy ccache
>>> python-opengl libgsl0-dev python-cheetah python-lxml doxygen qt4-dev-tools
>>> libqwt5-qt4-dev libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools python-qwt5-qt4
>>>
>>> 2)Install prerequesties for UHD
>>> sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev python-cheetah
>>> doxygen python-docutils cmake
>>>
>>> 3)Installing UHD from git
>>> git clone git://github.com/EttusResearch/uhd.git
>>>
>>> 4)Cmake for UHD
>>> //Follow these commands step by stp//
>>> cd uhd/host/
>>> mkdir build
>>> cd build/
>>> cmake ../
>>>
>>> 5) //Check the output of above one regarding the disabled components.
>>> Based upon our requirement we should select the USRP.//
>>> For example: cmake -DENABLE_USRP_E_UTILS=ON -DENABLE_E100=ON ../
>>>
>>> 6)make
>>>
>>> 7)Installing UHD and setting library path
>>> make test(check whether it shows 100% or not)
>>> sudo make install
>>> cd
>>> sudo gedit .bashrc
>>>
>>> 8)//Add this after HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace//
>>>
>>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:usr/local/lib
>>>
>>> //Save it and close//
>>>
>>> 9)git clone http://gnuradio.org/git/gnuradio.git
>>> ///This will take some time Can take even more than 2hrs////
>>>
>>> cd gnuradio/
>>> mkdir build/
>>> cd build/
>>> cmake ../
>>> make
>>> make test
>>> sudo make install
>>> sudoldconfig
>>> cd
>>> cd /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>>> pwd
>>> //copy the path//
>>> cd
>>> sudo gedit .bashrc
>>>
>>> 10) In 8th step we have added a path, after that one add
>>>
>>> export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
>>>
>>> //if u prefer python 3.0 then u can add 3.0//
>>> //Save it and close//
>>>
>>> 11)sudo ldconfig
>>>
>>> 12)sudo apt-get install gnuradio-companion
>>>
>>> Note:
>>> 1)If you get any error related to dpkg then run the command as suggested
>>> in the error.
>>>
>>> 2)Installation can take around 2hours and it depends upon the speed of
>>> your internet
>>>  I hope it could help you
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Krishna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am afraid I did not document this, but I ran into similar issues with
>>>> the
>>>> script and Kubuntu 14.04. However doing it all by hand, resolving
>>>> dependencies, load uhd and gnuradio sources, compile the stuff,
>>>> installing
>>>> udev rules, installing the gnuradio icons by hand and such, this all
>>>> was not
>>>> a big deal, and in some cases I simply read the script as a manual how
>>>> to do
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Pybombs is something I could not become friends with yet. For many
>>>> people it
>>>> seems to work, for me all attempts were disastreous.
>>>>
>>>> Ralph.
>>>>
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: [email protected]
>>>> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>>>> Of
>>>> > Marcus D. Leech
>>>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 5:43 PM
>>>> > To: [email protected]
>>>> > Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Issues Installing From Source
>>>> >
>>>> > On 03/04/2015 10:40 AM, Peter Witkowski wrote:
>>>> > > Hello,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > In the past, I've always used the build-gnuradio script to install
>>>> > > everything with great success.  This ensures that I have all the
>>>> > > latest versions of both GNU Radio and UHD.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > However, I recently got a new machine and installed Ubuntu 14.04 on
>>>> it
>>>> > > (I haven't had any issues with 14.04 before). I updated the OS to
>>>> the
>>>> > > latest version and then tried using build-gnuradio.  Immediately I
>>>> > > started having issues.  First, the script was unable to install git,
>>>> > > cmake, and other dependencies.  However, I was manually able to do a
>>>> > > "sudo apt-get" on all of these packages and at least get to the
>>>> point
>>>> > > where the script tries to install UHD.
>>>> > This is the first I've heard of it having problems doing the pre-req
>>>> installs.  If
>>>> > you run build-gnuradio with -v, you get more details about why.
>>>> >    If the underlying OS tooling is falling over, there's very little
>>>> that
>>>> build-
>>>> > gnuradio can do about it.  It has as much troubleshoot-and-repair
>>>> >    ability as a moribund gnat.
>>>> >
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