Re: Gnuradio 3.8 on a Raspberry pi 4 B?

[Ron Economos]

This is just a guess, but it's probably intended to be remotely accessed 
with ssh. Try:

ssh -Y username@host

The -Y enables X11 forwarding. After you log in to the remote host, try:

gnuradio-companion

Ron

On 5/28/20 18:33, Glen Langston wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I’ve written the image to an SDCARD and the PI4 boots to
> the command line prompt.  The password is accepted and
> I’ve looked around.
>
> Gnuradio seems to be installed, but not the xwindow system.
>
> How do you use gnuradio-companion etc?
>
> I could not find “xstartup” or some such program.
>
> Thanks
>
> Glen
>
> > On May 24, 2020, at 3:59 PM, jean-michel.friedt@femto-st.fr wrote:
> >
> > I have uploaded http://jmfriedt.org/sdcard.img
> > my Buildroot image generated for RPi4 that I have been
> > using daily for the last 2 months, so pretty sure it is
> > working. Actually it is 1.1 GB because of lapack needed
> > for gnss-sdr but GNU Radio 3.8/Python3 will only require
> > about 500 MB.
> > Gwenhael Goavec-Merou ported all GNU Radio related software/libraries
> > to Buildroot: the missing parts for gnss-sdr are found at
> > https://github.com/oscimp/PlutoSDR in the for_next branch.
> >
> > root passwd=root, no user account, USRP FPGA images to be added
> > in usr/share/uhd/images manually if libuhd is needed. Tested with
> > RTL-SDR DVB-T dongle, PlutoSDR (gr-iio) and B210.
> >
> > JM
> >
> > --
> > JM Friedt, FEMTO-ST Time & Frequency/SENSeOR, 26 rue de l'Epitaphe,
> > 25000 Besancon, France
> >
> > May 24, 2020 9:51 PM, "Glen I Langston" <glen.i.langston@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I’ve been a great proponent of gnuradio, but I’m finding in
> > > increasing difficult to do anything new, as installation of 3.8 is
> > > essentially impossible for most people.
> > >
> > > I’ve written and built my own python modules and C++ blocks.
> > >
> > > However, despite months of trying now, I can not get 3.8 to install
> > > on a raspberry pi.
> > >
> > > Has anyone achieved 3.8 on a raspberry pi?
> > >
> > > If so can you please save the entire OS, gzip compressed and put it
> > > online somewhere. It will probably be about 3 GB compressed.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Glen
> > >
> > > Note that there are many many (too many) different guides on line
> > >
> > > 1) apt-get
> > >
> > > 2) pybombs
> > >
> > > 3) git clone then build
> > >
> > > each one fails in a different way.