Hey,
you can use also our repo if you use the Raspbian that has everything
pre-built. Tested and working well on RPi4 with Buster on many SatNOGS
stations.
https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?package=gnuradio&project=home%3Alibrespace%3Asatnogs-unstable
On 3/7/20 6:45 PM, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Dear rrrBbert,
>
> the instructions are in fact for GNU Radio 3.8, so not for a previous
> version.
>
> Anyway, I'd not recommend building GNU Radio from source, at all, when
> there's binary packages available. That's just way harder, and has no
> advantages.
>
> Especially, at high cost, avoid building on an embedded system like the
> RPi: these are not machines meant for building software. Developers who
> target embedded devices compile the software on their PCs and transfer
> the binaries to the embedded devices; in fact, building GNU Radio
> typically exceeds the RAM you have in an RPi by far, and the poor
> device, aside from compiling Megabytes of C++ code, also needs to start
> swapping RAM to the incredibly slow medium of SD cards.
>
> So, simply use Raspbian Testing on your Rpi, which simply comes with GNU
> Radio 3.8.1-rc1:
>
> sudo apt install gnuradio
>
> and done.
>
> There should be a guide how to update your Raspbian to that, somewhere
> (I'm not a Raspbian user myself, so I can't help you). That should be
> pretty straightforward, and at the very least, much, much easier than
> building GNU Radio from source.
>
> Also, a note on NOOBS/the raspbian, that it installs: Raspbian, for some
> reason, has decided that "all RPis are alike", which they really are
> not. The older RPi are least-performance 32 bit machines without
> acceleration for a lot of things, whereas the RPi 3 and RPi4 are 64 bit
> machines with support for accelerated vector math, which GNU Radio
> really uses *a lot*. So, Raspbian throws a lot of performance, as far as
> I know, by forcing software to run in legacy armhf mode.
>
> Sadly, "real" Debian (which Raspbian is based on) hasn't fully been
> ported to the RPi 4 yet, so I don't have a great alternative to updating
> your Raspbian from buster to testing yet.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus
>
> On 07.03.20 16:46, Robert Heerekop wrote:
>> Dear radio friends,
>>
>> Can anyone guide me (a rookie on HelloWorld level) how to install GNU
>> Radio Campanion 3.8.1 on Rasperry Pi4?
>>
>> If I follow the (currently) most recent RPi NOOBS 3.3.1 the installation
>> guides fail (e.g.
>> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGRFromSource_on_Raspberry_Pi)
>>
>> I'm searching for a few days now, but get stuck because the information
>> I can find is only related to previous versions.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for getting me and others rookies on track!
>>
>> rrrRbert
>>
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