Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Moving from an apt-get (Ubunto) install to Pybombs

[Marcus Müller]

Hi Greg,

pybombs is pretty safe. It will only install stuff that successfully builds, so the chance that you wreck your installation are small, even if you decide to install stuff into /usr/local. However, you can also instruct pybombs to only install into  /home/greg/prefix (or any other directory of your choice), which will leave your whole system untouched. You delete /home/greg/prefix, and everything pybombs did will be undone :)

You should indeed uninstall GNU Radio if you have already installed it, but you don't have to -- the prefix method will work, nevertheless.
Pybombs will only need root privileges to install missing libraries from the Ubuntu archives.
Warning: If you plan to use Ettus USRPs, please make sure you *don't* have Ubuntu's uhd*, libuhd* or uhd-host packages installed; these range from old to archaeologically interesting.

Best regards,
Marcus

On 04/09/2015 09:36 PM, Gregory W. Ratcliff wrote:

 Greetings,

 

Long time lurker--daily user, but now faced with a decision.

 

I have noticed the fine work with Pybombs and picked up a more hardware and thought to myself:

"Hey, now is time to bite the bullet is start using Pybombs"

 

I don't want that bullet to shoot me in the foot (sorry).

 

Question:  What is the safest method to switch to Pybombs for a working installation?

My thoughts were to

 

1. Remove what I can manually and start over

2. Tell Pybombs to install into the ubunto /user/local/blah dirs.

 

Greg

nz8r

 

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