Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

[Humphries, James R.]

Do you have python-setuptools installed?

I believe you can do:

pip install setuptools

-Trip

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From: Discuss-gnuradio <address@hidden> On Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 11:18 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio.sh and Linux Mint 19

Well, this was unexpected... I got a failure in the UHD build phase:

UHD build apparently failed
Exiting UHD build

I just re-ran with logging turned on; the results are in the attached 
build-gnuradio.log.gz file.


On 10/29/18 10:59 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> Hi Marcus --
> 
> I did as James Humphries suggested and added "|*19*" to the line where 
> *18* is.  I'm running the script now.
> 
> In the "Checking for package..." section I got these two messages:
> 
> Failed to find package 'libqwtplot3d-qt4-dev' in known package 
> repositories SOME THINGS MAY NOT BUILD AS A RESULT
> 
> Failed to find package 'libzmq-dev' in known package repositories
> SOME THINGS MAY NOT BUILD AS A RESULT
> 
> I seem to recall that the libzmq-dev warning has been present for a 
> while, and isn't an issue.  I don't recall seeing the warning about 
> libqwtplot3d before, but Googling the package name turns up a couple of 
> hints that maybe it was removed from the amd64 version of Ubuntu Bionic 
> (18.04), which Linux Mint 19 is based upon.  Maybe qt4 has been 
> deprecated for qt5 in that version?  My debian-fu isn't enough to make 
> sense of it all.
> 
> The script is still building UHD.  I'll report back whether it 
> successfully finishes.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/18 10:42 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>> On 10/29/2018 10:17 AM, Neel Pandeya wrote:
>>> Hello John:
>>>
>>> It looks like support for Linux Mint 19 has not yet been added. See 
>>> lines 525 through 566. The author can comment on-list with further 
>>> information. But you could probably try using the same list of 
>>> packages as for Mint 18 in line 551.
>>>
>>> --Neel Pandeya
>>>
>>>
>> I rely on community input before build-gnuradio is updated for new OS 
>> releases.  I'm simply not in a position to track all the distribs
>>    and do the recipes myself.
>>
>> If simply bypassing that check works, let me know, and I can update 
>> the script....
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 October 2018 at 07:11, John Ackermann N8UR <address@hidden 
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Thanks, Neel!  However, I just downloaded the version on github
>>>     and it fails with the same error; the page indicates that the last
>>>     mods were 11 months ago, which predates Mint 19.
>>>
>>>     John
>>>     ----
>>>
>>>     On 10/29/18 10:07 AM, Neel Pandeya wrote:
>>>
>>>         The "build-gnuradio" script is now being maintained on GitHub.
>>>
>>>         https://github.com/ccera-astro/build-gnuradio
>>>         <https://github.com/ccera-astro/build-gnuradio>
>>>
>>>         --Neel Pandeya
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 29 October 2018 at 07:04, John Ackermann N8UR <address@hidden
>>>         <mailto:address@hidden> <mailto:address@hidden
>>>         <mailto:address@hidden>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>             I'm trying to run the current build-gnuradio.sh script from
>>>         sbrac.org <http://sbrac.org> <http://sbrac.org> on a Linux
>>>         Mint 19 machine and the
>>>             script immediately fails, saying "Your Mint release must
>>>         be at least
>>>             Linux Mint 11 to proceed"
>>>
>>>             Is it safe to just bypass that check, or is there some 
>>> sort of
>>>             incompatibilty with v19?  Or is sbrac.org
>>>         <http://sbrac.org> <http://sbrac.org> no
>>>             longer the place to find the current version of the script?
>>>
>>>             Thanks,
>>>             John
>>>
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