Hi Jason,

I can see that sudo pecularities might break pybombs; however, replacing
sudo with a script is a rather uncommon practice (you incurr a lot of
problems, because scripts usually can't have the setuid bit etc); is
that vanilla ubuntu 16.04 or what's happened there?

Best regards,

Marcus

On 12.10.2016 19:12, Jason Matusiak wrote:
> Hi Nick!
> I did.  When I run it I get:
> Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
>
> I am not on a thin client, I am on a fresh load of 16.04 on an actual
> PC.  I do believe that sudo isn't actually sudo, but a script.  That
> said, I wasn't having sudo issues before I reloaded my machine (which
> was running 14.04).
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On 10/12/2016 01:04 PM, Nicholas McCarthy wrote:
>> Jason, did you try 
>> pip install --upgrade setuptools
>>
>> as a first step?  Are you running on a special setup such as a
>> patchwork virtual machine being served to you on a thinclient with
>> f**ed permissions?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick M.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:38 AM Jason Matusiak
>> <ja...@gardettoengineering.com
>> <mailto:ja...@gardettoengineering.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     > Hi Marcus, The reason I went with sudo was because it was
>>     erroring out if I didn't:
>>
>>     > $ pip install -I --user pybombs
>>     > Collecting pybombs
>>     >   Using cached PyBOMBS-2.2.0.tar.gz
>>     >     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>>
>>     > /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
>>     Unknown distribution option: 'entry_points'
>>
>>     >       warnings.warn(msg)
>>
>>     > /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning:
>>     Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'
>>
>>     >       warnings.warn(msg)
>>     >     usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>>     >        or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>>     >        or: -c --help-commands
>>     >        or: -c cmd --help
>>     >
>>     >     error: invalid command 'egg_info'
>>     > 
>>     >     ----------------------------------------
>>
>>     > Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in 
>>     /tmp/pip-build-FJfz9W/pybombs/
>>
>>     I am still stuck at this stage. Assuming I am dead in the water,
>>     what is the next best (approved) way of installing GnuRadio? 
>>     Doing it by hand from the github clone?
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