Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Setting up GNU Radio

[Marcus Müller]

If I install it without sudo to a local account directory, how will other users be able to access the install? Is it simply a matter of setting up the environment variables correctly?

The idea is to install GNU Radio globally, and let users handle their own modules in their own home directories. So you'd install GNU Radio with sudo as root into /usr/local, and each user installs private modules into /home/<user>/prefix

When does the error you paste below occur? Before you get the chance to enter /usr/local as prefix, or after?
Anyway, I'd recommend deleting your pybombs folder and cloning it cleanly again, running pybombs without root. It should ask you for the prefix. after that, it should print a warning that you should re-run it with sudo. Do that. Does the error still occur?

Greetings,
Marcus

On 03/12/2015 11:02 PM, Richard Bell wrote:

Thanks for responding MarcusM,

I can't execute 'sudo ./pybombs install gnuradio' at all, because it fails with the following output:

address@hidden:~/Documents/gnuradio/pybombs$ sudo ./pybombs install gnuradio
Initializing config file...
Username for GIT access
gituser [root]:
Directory of git cache repository
gitcache []:
Install Prefix
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./pybombs", line 25, in <module>
    from mod_pybombs import verbosity as v
  File "/home/rbell/Documents/gnuradio/pybombs/mod_pybombs/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
    from globals import *;
  File "/home/rbell/Documents/gnuradio/pybombs/mod_pybombs/globals.py", line 48, in <module>
    config_init(config);
  File "/home/rbell/Documents/gnuradio/pybombs/mod_pybombs/cfg.py", line 70, in config_init
    if os.path.basename(pwd)=="pybombs":
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 121, in basename
    i = p.rfind('/') + 1
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
address@hidden:~/Documents/gnuradio/pybombs$

If I install it without sudo to a local account directory, how will other users be able to access the install? Is it simply a matter of setting up the environment variables correctly?

v/r,

Rich

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Richard,
no, not completely.
instead of 1) you should cd somewhere in your home directory, where you have write access
2) - 3) are correct. Choose /usr/local/ as prefix
5) could also be done by copying over setup_env.sh to /etc/profile.d/50-setup-gnuradio-paths

6) is normal and should not result in errors.

If normal users (including) want to install their own OOT modules, they'd use a local clone of pybombs, setting that gnuradio is already installed, and install their modules into a user-prefix (e.g. /home/user/prefix).

Greetings,
Marcus

On 03/12/2015 10:43 PM, Richard Bell wrote:

Hi all,

I'm setting up a new shared laptop with multiple users who want to use GNU Radio. I'm not sure how to set this up correctly.

Should I do it this way:

1) cd /usr/local/bin

2) git clone https://github.com/pybombs/pybombs.git && cd pybombs

3) sudo ./pybombs install gnuradio (sudo needed to give permission to create files here)

4) ./pybombs env

5) Then instead of sourcing the setup_env.sh file from .bashrc, I will source it from /etc/profile.

6) Finally, and this is the part I'm most unsure of, since I used sudo ./pybombs install gnuradio, root owns these files. If I remember correctly, this caused issues for me in the past trying to run gnuradio from a non-root account. How should I handle this?

Thanks a lot,

Rich

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