Re: failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.org/rasbian ...

[Elmore's]

Marcus,

My problem is solved. I didn’t need to upgrade to Bookworm. Using the command 
‘apt install gnuradio –dev’ instead of ‘apt install gnuradio’ did the trick.

I don’t understand the need for the –dev but it worked.

Jim

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Re: failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.org/rasbian ...

[Elmore's]

Marcus,

I have upgraded my Raspberry Pi to Bullseye. When I attempted to upgrade to 
Bookworm I got a message that the repository does not have a Release  file. 
Thus, I cannot upgrade. Bullseye gives me gnuradio 3.8.2.

I went on the Raspberry Pi forum for suggestions about what to do in order to 
be able to upgrade to gnuradio 3.9 without Bookworm and received 2 suggestions 
to build 3.9 from source.

In your reply to my original post you said “If upgrading from Debian 11 to 
Bookworm (which will be 12) is not an option (FOR A REASON, honestly, upgrading 
debian is rather smooth), do not go the manual route of building GNU Radio from 
source using cmake/make/ a lot of time figuring things out, but simply use our 
or the official debian packaging tools to automate that building for you.”

What tools do I use to automate the building?

Jim

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Re: failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.org/rasbian ...

[Cinaed Simson]

Hi Elmore - those are system errors - not gnuradio errors.

How did you get from jessie to bullseye?

Did you consult anyone on the Debian mailing lists on how to proceed?

It's standard practice to backup anything you can't afford to loose when 
upgrading an operating system.


And it's possible you may have to re-image the system depending on how 
you did what you did.


Send me email instead of posting on this mailing list - and I'll see if 
I can help you.


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On 1/18/22 08:17, Elmore's wrote:

Marcus,
At your suggestion:
  
I upgraded to Debian 11 (Bullseye) following instructions I found on Tom’s Hardware site. It seemed to be successful except that GNU radio no longer executes.
  
Figuring that perhaps I need to install Debian 12 and upgrade to GNU radio 3.9 before it will run again I went to the following:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bookworm/Upgrades
  
The following happens during the installation process:
  
Execute ‘apt full-upgrade’:

     unmet dependencies:
     libc –dev –bin
     libc6 –dbg
     libc6 –dev
     libnih1
  
Execute ‘apt –f install’ at the suggestion of the instructions:

     dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/init-system 
–helpers_1.60_all.deb (—unpack)
  
     Errors encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/init-system –helpers_1.60_all.deb
 
     Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
  
Execute ‘apt –y full-upgrade’ at the suggestion of the instructions:

     unmet dependencies error same as above
  
Execute ‘apt-get –f install’ at the suggestion of the execution result:

     unmet dependencies error same as above
  
What’s next?
  
Jim


 
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Re: failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.org/rasbian ...

[Elmore's]

Marcus, At your suggestion:  I upgraded to Debian 11 (Bullseye) following 
instructions I found on Tom’s Hardware site. It seemed to be successful except 
that GNU radio no longer executes.  Figuring that perhaps I need to install 
Debian 12 and upgrade to GNU radio 3.9 before it will run again I went to the 
following:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bookworm/Upgrades The 
following happens during the installation process: Execute ‘apt full-upgrade’:  
  unmet dependencies:libc –dev –binlibc6 –dbglibc6 –dev 
   libnih1 Execute ‘apt –f install’ at the suggestion of the instructions:  
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/init-system 
–helpers_1.60_all.deb (—unpack) Errors encountered while processing: 
/var/cache/apt/archives/init-system –helpers_1.60_all.deb Sub-process 
/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code Execute ‘apt –y full-upgrade’ at the 
suggestion of the instructions:unmet dependencies error same as above 
Execute ‘apt-get –f install’ at the suggestion of the execution result:
unmet dependencies error same as above What’s next? Jim

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Re: failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.org/rasbian ...

[Marcus Müller]

Hi Jim,

I guess what you **want** to do is *use* GNU Radio, not primarily *build it* from source; 
right?


While I can't rule out that you *could* build GNU Radio 3.9 for debian Jessie, it's 
positively ancient, and Debian says Jessie reached its end-of-life more than a year ago, 
after 5 years of support.
Building modern Software on End-of-life operating systems is no fun – and I'd like to 
point out it's also very hard to help you, and honest recommendations will often amount to 
"simply don't".


So, honestly, migrate to a more modern raspberry Pi OS – you'll be much happier, and if I 
read the release notes[1] correctly, you'd get Debian 11. Building GNU Radio for Debian 11 
works.

But even better:
After a simple upgrade to bookworm [2] you'd be getting GNU Radio 3.9 simply by running 
`apt install gnuradio`. (I haven't tried that myself, don't have a RPi.)
If upgrading from Debian 11 to Bookworm (which will be 12) is not an option (FOR A REASON, 
honestly, upgrading debian is rather smooth), do not go the manual route of building GNU 
Radio from source using cmake/make/ a lot of time figuring things out, but simply use our 
or the official debian packaging tools to automate that building for you. Let the system 
work for you – you're a human, you should not be tasked with memorizing the ways other 
people build software,


Generally, avoid building humongous C++ software like GNU Radio on the target device 
(you'll run out of RAM very quickly, compilation is slow, using swap space makes it even 
slower but has no alternative due to lack of RAM…); instead, use cross compilation, or 
better even, install a readily built package (that's what Linux distros are for, in the 
end). The cases where you should build large software on a RPi3 are – I haven't found one.



Best regards,
Marcus

[1] https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_armhf/release_notes.txt
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Bookworm/Upgrades

On 16.01.22 02:07, Elmore's wrote:

Device: Raspberry Pi 3
OS: Rasbian Jessie
My goal is to install GNU Radio 3.9.
I am following the instructions in Installing GR on the gnuradio site.
In the installation for Volk I attempt to execute cmake –DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release 
–DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python ../

I get a message that distutils is not found. I need to install 
python3_distutils.
When I attempt the installation, I get a series of messages “Failed to fetch 
mirrordirector.rasbian.org/rasbian/ ..” with different paths.
I have viewed many forums regarding this issue and they provide many different ”solutions” 
but nothing conclusive.

Please help.
Jim

 
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Re: failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.org/rasbian ...

[Cinaed Simson]

Hi Elmore - try

  apt install python3-distutils

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On 1/15/22 17:07, Elmore's wrote:

Device: Raspberry Pi 3
OS: Rasbian Jessie
My goal is to install GNU Radio 3.9.
I am following the instructions in Installing GR on the gnuradio site.
In the installation for Volk I attempt to execute cmake 
–DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release –DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python ../
I get a message that distutils is not found. I need to install 
python3_distutils.
When I attempt the installation, I get a series of messages “Failed to 
fetch mirrordirector.rasbian.org/rasbian/ ..” with different paths.
I have viewed many forums regarding this issue and they provide many 
different ”solutions” but nothing conclusive.

Please help.
Jim

 
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