[Hackrf-dev] ubuntu 14.04lts

[Iluta V]

Well, wouldn't just be more effective start with a clean Ubuntu OS? Worked
for me vs. removing endlessly.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Paul Connolly <eeipcy at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I don't use Ubuntu,  but after reading this
> https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager
> I would guess one of two things:
> That the nightly snapshot build that you installed may have had a problem,
> you are probably better off using the release builds.
> (daily/nightly snapshot builds are not always guaranteed to work, 99.99%
> of the time they do, but release builds should always work)
>
> Or more likely you have "gr-iqbal 0.37.1.5.d4fd4d-1" installed and then
> you tried to force overwrite this with
> "libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386" (and at a guess other
> packages as well). The first package looks like it is from the main Ubuntu
> package repository and the latter is from the gqrx snapshot package
> repository. It looks to me like you tried to install gnuradio from the main
> Ubuntu package repository, that didn't work for you so then you added the
> gqrx snapshot package repository and then tried again. Without having first
> removed the old packages, you now have two copies of most things on your
> system mostly in two different locations and everything is confused because
> of mismatched library files.
>
> I'd remove everything and try again:
> (delete any packages that can no longer be downloaded from any repository,
> out of date junk packages, free up disk space):
> $ sudo apt-get autoclean
> (remove the following packages and any configuration files)
> $ sudo apt-get purge gqrx gnuradio gr-osmosdr hackrf uhd-host
> (remove any unused dependency packages)
> $ sudo apt-get autoremove
> (remove the snapshot repository)
> $ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:gqrx/*snapshots*
> (update the list of available packages)
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
> If the above did NOT work without errors then I'd do the following (if it
> did work without errors then I'd skip to the nest paragraph) :
> (Use the following line with caution)
> $ sudo apt-get --force-yes remove gqrx gnuradio gr-osmosdr hackrf uhd-host
> $ sudo apt-get autoremove
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
> Let's assume that your system is in a good state now I'd follow the advise
> here
> https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager
> and use the release builds.
> (add the gqrx releases repository)
> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gqrx/*releases*
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> $ sudo apt-get install gqrx gnuradio gr-osmosdr hackrf
>
> Like I said I don't have or use Ubuntu, but the above commands will
> probably work.
>
> On 05/07/2015 19:32, tokens at myranch.com wrote:
>
> It was suggested that the easiest way to install Gnuradio and Hackrf was this:
> http://www.hamspirit.nl/mediawiki/index.php/Installing_GnuRadio
>
> I tried this and all went well except for two things.
>
> 1. The green USB light lights up but I can’t get any response from hackrf_info.
>
> allen at allen-laptop:~$ hackrf_info
> hackrf_info: symbol lookup error: hackrf_info: undefined symbol: hackrf_device_list
> allen at allen-laptop:~$
>
> 2. There is a problem installing libgnuradio-iqbalance.
>
> allen at allen-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
> [sudo] password for allen:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libgnuradio-iqbalance
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libgnuradio-iqbalance
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 15 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/89.4 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 500 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 308156 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386.deb ...
> Unpacking libgnuradio-iqbalance (0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/iqbalance/iqbalance_swig.py', which is also in package gr-iqbal 0.37.1.5.d4fd4d-1
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnuradio-iqbalance_0.37.2-gqrx~trusty8_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> allen at allen-laptop:~$
>
> I hope someone can give me some help. Working with Linux is not intuitive for me.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Al
>
>
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