On Monday 26 June 2006 18:22, Robert McGwier wrote: > I installed Ubunto 5.X and GnuRadio just made and ran after I used apt > (synaptic) to download any package GnuRadio could not find. With Ubunto
Yes; on Fedora Core 5 I just used 'yum install' in an identical fashion as you would use 'apt-get install' to grab the dependencies, with the singular exception of SDCC, which I built from a source RPM and then installed with 'rpm -i'. At some point I'm going to put together GNUradio RPMs for FC5; I however track CVS/SVN and that makes it difficult. I've not built a tarball release in a very long time. Virtually all the modern distributions can do these sorts of automatic dependency resolution these days; it often falls to what packages you need and whether there is a package repository containing the mix of packages you need. PHP5, for instance, is in Fedora Core 5 already, and I didn't need to do any aclocal.m4 modifications to build GNUradio. My comment about bandwidth (I have a 1.5Mbit DSL at home) is in keeping up with package updates; no one but SuSE deals with this as yet, and I'm not sure if SuSE still does package deltas or not. The FC5 updates run several hundred megabytes per month; sometimes per week. Not sure about Ubuntu; I have a copy of Dapper, but have not had time to install it (I'm quite happy with CentOS 4 on the servers and FC5 on the linux desktops here; using a local repository rsynced to the master repos helps on the bandwidth side). The CentOS updates comprise far less volume on the machines that don't use the kde-redhat repository; those that do use kde-redhat can get a hundred MB or so per month since that repository includes later OpenOffice.org packages, as well as core kde libs and such. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio