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

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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