Donald, Thank you for your script!!!! After spending the last four days (on and off) trying Pybombs and other methods, reinstalling Ubuntu each time, your script was the thing that worked for me.
Al From: Donald Pupecki Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 3:56 AM To: Paul Connolly Cc: hackrf-dev@greatscottgadgets.com Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] ubuntu 14.04lts Well, Heres an argument for just doing it from source. I made a little script that builds gqrx and gnuradio with support for hackrf, uhd, and rtlsdr on 14.04lts. I highly encourage anyone who wants to use it to not just run it but open it up and copy/paste the lines into a terminal so you see the process. It's written such that it avoids any real need to know bash to use. All the commands are just as if you would have typed them into a terminal yourself. I included some commented out lines on the bottom that should show you how to uninstall or update. And lastly... it's not very robust, in favor of simplicity, so I wouldn't try to rerun it without uninstalling and then deleting the SDR directory it created. It should be considered more like a how to that happens to be executable. Hope someone finds it useful. https://github.com/Flamewires/u14lts-gr-build/blob/master/build.sh On Jul 7, 2015 5:59 PM, "Paul Connolly" <eei...@gmail.com> wrote: Either way is fine, just choose one and stick to it. Me personalty I use packages, but I re-pointed my Debian machine from wheezy to jessie, so I at the cost of being behind on security updates (machine is not networked) I'm slightly closer to the cutting edge, but still behind using ppa:gqrx/(releases and snapshots), mostly because I did not know that it existed when I set the machine. packages ------------- pros: Easy to install ( https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager ) Fast to install Easy to update (sudo apt-get update) Fast to update cons: Can lag behind the cutting edge of changes to the source code ( releases, but maybe not snapshots ) In theory a malicious person could own your machine, but the same is true from an OS distributor. pybombs pros: Works on more Linux distributions At the cutting edge of changes to the source code Easy to install ( http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki ) Easy to update (./pybombs update) More secure since you have built the binaries, no need to trust that the package binaries are not malicious (99.999999999% of the time, not an issue). cons: Always at the cutting edge of changes to the source code Slower to install and update - compiling all the source code into binaries takes time On 07/07/2015 22:06, tok...@myranch.com wrote: There have been several suggestions as to how to install. What are the pros and cons of the methods. I am Linux illiterate so please be explicit. Thank you all for your help. Regards, Al _______________________________________________ HackRF-dev mailing list HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com https://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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