Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Which LinuxOS to use?-->1.Unbuntu, Fedora, Mandrake, FreeBSD

[Ben Loftin]

UBUNTU (new)

What I did to get started on newest ubuntu is just install from universe the
gnuradio packages

http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/breezy/comm/gnuradio-examples

This installs all the dependencies and then just uninstall gnuradio packages and
compile from cvs and follow the walkthrough from earlier email.

FEDORA (new)

Here are my notes (less formal than walkthrough) for FC5 out of the box, read
with care, mileage may vary

update distro!!

add to sudo user

add user to wheel group /etc/group
/etc/sudoers
/sbin/visudo
then edit sudoers to add users to wheel

Network,

host name needs to change among networks

not so obvious needed:
libusb (yum)
libusb-devel (yum)
kernel source for comedilib
(?) comedi-0.7.70.tar.gz (download)
comedilib-0.7.22.tar.gz 
PortAudio (download daily check out (if fails get pa_previous_snapshot)) -
before jack
follow README in gr dir

(maybe)
in source tree make link to libtool

ln -s /usr/bin/libtool .
(maybe)

./configure
make
sudo make install
/sbin/ldconfig


jack >= 0.80 (download)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jackit/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.100.0.tar.gz
./configure

make sure it give something like

jack-audio-connection-kit 0.100.0 :

| Build with ALSA support............................... : true
| Build with OSS support................................ : true
| Build with CoreAudio support.......................... : false
| Build with PortAudio support.......................... : true
|
| Default driver backend................................ : "alsa"
| Shared memory interface............................... : "System V"


comedilib

need to be root to make
sudo make
sudo make install

Next you need to mess with pkg-config for portaudio so edit file
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/portaudio-2.0.pc
and change exec-prefix to just prefix

cvs checkout:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/gnuradio co -P gr-build


go into gr-build directory:
./checkout -x mc4020

./for-all-dirs ../buildit

Export python path to .bash_profile
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages






Quoting mjam01 <address@hidden>:

> Hey,
> 
> See my installation walkthrough at http://m0mik.org for Ubuntu 6.06
> 
> Definatly the easiest!!!
> 
> 
> Mike
> m0mik.org
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/23/06, Quenton Bonds <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone!
> > I am new to the GNU world.
> >
> > I am an intern at NASA AIMES and we are about to run three brand new
> > SDRs.  Basically we are trying to use some Linux laptops with the USRP's
> > for SRD research.
> >
> > I have less than two months to get this project going, and we just got
> > three brand new Laptops and USRP kits yesterday.
> >
> > My Question:  What Linux operating system seems to work the _BEST_ with
> > GNU USRP, mainly in reference to system failure, and having previously
> > defined libraries/classes/modules previously installed?
> > Right now we are going with UBUNTU (per my superiors:)-)but for some
> > reason I would like to use Fedora.
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Due to the limited time I am trying to save myself as much heart ache as
> > possible, therefore any advice is welcomed and greatly appreciated,
> > especially in choosing an operating system.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
>