Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Overwrites UHD With Old Version

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Hughes, Jeremy Jay <hughes.164@wright.edu> wrote:

I am trying to install GNU Radio and UHD on a Raspberry Pi 2 so that it will work with a USRP B200MIni. I am using the newest version of Raspbian-Jessie on the Raspberry Pi. I can get GNU Radio installed using

> sudo apt-get install gnuradio

The problem is that the UHD provided with this is too old.  Will there be a updated package added to apt-get anytime soon?

This is a question for whoever packages GNU Radio for Raspbian. I would guess not. I recommend reading up on packaging practices of whatever distribution you use (in this case Raspbian, based on Debian). Most distros including Debian "freeze" packaged software at the version that was current whenever the distro's release freeze date is, and will update bug fixes, but not do wholesale release changes (essentially maintaining a stablei ABI so *everything* doesn't need to recompile). This avoids a *ton* of head aches.
 

The next thing I tried was installing UHD from source first and then installing GNU Radio after. I can get the UHD driver installed so that it will see the B200Mini but once I install GNU Radio it overwrites the UHD I installed from source.

This is ambiguous. Did you apt-get install gnuradio? Again, this is a packaging thing for sanity. Your distribution's binary build of GNU Radio depends on your distribution's binary build of UHD and it will be installed.

 

The next thing I tried was using pybombs to install uhd and gnuradio but once again, I ended up with a UHD version that was too old to use with my B200Mini.

Now that's not supposed to happen.

 

Is there a way to get GNU Radio and a new version of UHD to work on the Raspberry Pi 2?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Make sure you remove *everything* you've done to date, then start over from scratch with pybombs. apt-get remove gnuradio and uhd. remove your source install of UHD, remove your pybombs install of everything. Clear out your pybombs prefix and try again with pybombs. In general don't mix source and binary installs.

Thank you for your time,

Jeremy Hughes