Well, wouldn't just be more effective start with a clean Ubuntu OS? Worked for me vs. removing endlessly.
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Paul Connolly <eei...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't use Ubuntu, but after reading this > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager > I would guess one of two things: > That the nightly snapshot build that you installed may have had a problem, > you are probably better off using the release builds. > (daily/nightly snapshot builds are not always guaranteed to work, 99.99% > of the time they do, but release builds should always work) > > Or more likely you have "gr-iqbal 0.37.1.5.d4fd4d-1" installed and then > you tried to force overwrite this with > "libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386" (and at a guess other > packages as well). The first package looks like it is from the main Ubuntu > package repository and the latter is from the gqrx snapshot package > repository. It looks to me like you tried to install gnuradio from the main > Ubuntu package repository, that didn't work for you so then you added the > gqrx snapshot package repository and then tried again. Without having first > removed the old packages, you now have two copies of most things on your > system mostly in two different locations and everything is confused because > of mismatched library files. > > I'd remove everything and try again: > (delete any packages that can no longer be downloaded from any repository, > out of date junk packages, free up disk space): > $ sudo apt-get autoclean > (remove the following packages and any configuration files) > $ sudo apt-get purge gqrx gnuradio gr-osmosdr hackrf uhd-host > (remove any unused dependency packages) > $ sudo apt-get autoremove > (remove the snapshot repository) > $ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gqrx/*snapshots* > (update the list of available packages) > $ sudo apt-get update > > If the above did NOT work without errors then I'd do the following (if it > did work without errors then I'd skip to the nest paragraph) : > (Use the following line with caution) > $ sudo apt-get --force-yes remove gqrx gnuradio gr-osmosdr hackrf uhd-host > $ sudo apt-get autoremove > $ sudo apt-get update > > Let's assume that your system is in a good state now I'd follow the advise > here > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager > and use the release builds. > (add the gqrx releases repository) > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gqrx/*releases* > $ sudo apt-get update > $ sudo apt-get upgrade > $ sudo apt-get install gqrx gnuradio gr-osmosdr hackrf > > Like I said I don't have or use Ubuntu, but the above commands will > probably work. > > On 05/07/2015 19:32, tok...@myranch.com wrote: > > It was suggested that the easiest way to install Gnuradio and Hackrf was this: > http://www.hamspirit.nl/mediawiki/index.php/Installing_GnuRadio > > I tried this and all went well except for two things. > > 1. The green USB light lights up but I can’t get any response from > hackrf_info. > > allen@allen-laptop:~$ hackrf_info > hackrf_info: symbol lookup error: hackrf_info: undefined symbol: > hackrf_device_list > allen@allen-laptop:~$ > > 2. There is a problem installing libgnuradio-iqbalance. > > allen@allen-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f > [sudo] password for allen: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libgnuradio-iqbalance > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libgnuradio-iqbalance > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 15 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0 B/89.4 kB of archives. > After this operation, 500 kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > (Reading database ... 308156 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386.deb ... > Unpacking libgnuradio-iqbalance (0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8) ... > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/iqbalance/iqbalance_swig.py', > which is also in package gr-iqbal 0.37.1.5.d4fd4d-1 > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > allen@allen-laptop:~$ > > I hope someone can give me some help. Working with Linux is not intuitive for > me. > > Thank you very much. > > Al > > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing > listHackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.comhttps://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > >
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