Hi Leonardo,
So this depends on your situation: If you're allowed to
get arbitrary
software installed by asking IT, I'd ask them to install a
recent
version of GNU Radio (at *least* 3.7.2, the newer, the
better).
Possibly, only outdated versions are in your IT's software
package
repositories, so you might need them to build and install
from source;
they might refuse.
If that's the case, or you can't ask for arbitrary
software:
use pyBombs[1]! It allows installation in a directory
prefix of your
choice. Choose "src" as only viable method of software
installation.
After pybombs has finished doing its thing, you get a
shell script that
you can use to modify the environment variables, so that
if you just use
that script in your ~/.bashrc, you will have a system that
has a working
GNU Radio, completely without leaving the boundaries of
your non-root
user. Downside is that everything that's not on your
system (or in an
outdated version) has to be built from source, which will
take quite
some time and storage. Afterwards, if all these PCs are
the same, you
can just copy the prefix folder to every user's home
directory.
Either way, you'll (hopefully) have a working GNU Radio
installation
afterwards.
Now, if you used pybombs, you'll already have a prefix
directory in your
user's home where your OS will look for when loading
libraries etc.
Otherwise, use pybombs now (./pybombs config; ./pybombs
env; echo
"source $prefix/setup_env.sh" >> ~/.bashrc) to
generate the empty
directory and generate a path-bending script.
When building your student's OOT's, you'd go the normal
"cd gr-mymodule;
mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; make; make install;"
route, only that
you'd replace "cmake .." with "cmake
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/userXYZ/prefixdirectory ..";
afterwards,
"make install" will install the things into
prefixdirectory; awesome!
Best regards,
Marcus
[1]
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki/QuickStart
On 04/08/2015 11:52 AM, Leonardo S. Cardoso wrote:
Hi everyone,
We’re trying to implement a GNU Radio course here in
Lyon (France) where we take the students step-by-step
into coding GR modules. At some point we’d like them to
follow the out-of-tree modules tutorial but we’ve
stumbled upon an unfortunate limitation: the IT guys of
our university wont allow root access on any computer,
meaning that we can compile but cannot install the
blocks...
I come to you guys, to ask for advices on how to
implement this. I have some ideas already but I’d like
to see if there is any “best practice” ways to do this.
Best regards,
Leonardo Cardoso
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