Hi Greg, pybombs is pretty safe. It will only install stuff that successfully builds, so the chance that you wreck your installation are small, even if you decide to install stuff into /usr/local. However, you can also instruct pybombs to only install into /home/greg/prefix (or any other directory of your choice), which will leave your whole system untouched. You delete /home/greg/prefix, and everything pybombs did will be undone :)
You should indeed uninstall GNU Radio if you have already installed it, but you don't have to -- the prefix method will work, nevertheless. Pybombs will only need root privileges to install missing libraries from the Ubuntu archives. Warning: If you plan to use Ettus USRPs, please make sure you *don't* have Ubuntu's uhd*, libuhd* or uhd-host packages installed; these range from old to archaeologically interesting. Best regards, Marcus On 04/09/2015 09:36 PM, Gregory W. Ratcliff wrote: > Greetings, > > Long time lurker--daily user, but now faced with a decision. > > I have noticed the fine work with Pybombs and picked up a more > hardware and thought to myself: > "Hey, now is time to bite the bullet is start using Pybombs" > > I don't want that bullet to shoot me in the foot (sorry). > > Question: What is the safest method to switch to Pybombs for a > working installation? > My thoughts were to > > 1. Remove what I can manually and start over > 2. Tell Pybombs to install into the ubunto /user/local/blah dirs. > > Greg > nz8r > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
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