Re: Gnuradio Update on ubuntu 20.04 lts

[Marcus Müller]

No need to be sorry, thanks for chiming in :)



On 19.07.23 17:38, Volker Schroer wrote:
> Sorry, I was wrong . cmake is not PPA related
>
> > Am 19.07.2023 um 17:31 schrieb Marcus Müller <mmueller@gnuradio.org>:
> >
> > Hi Volker,
> >
> > I believe David is referring to the PPA installation, i.e.,
> >
> > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuradio/gnuradio-releases
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install gnuradio python3-packaging
> >
> >
> > But that's what confuses me: starting yesterday, that should have installed GR 
> > 3.10.7.0 :-)
> >
> > Anyways, huh, gotta check that package twice.
> >
> > Best,
> > Marcus
> > > On 19.07.23 17:23, Volker Schroer wrote:
> > > Did you run cmake with
> > > -DENABLE_POSTINSTALL=ON ?
> > > — Volker
> > > > > Am 19.07.2023 um 17:16 schrieb David Martini <martini.david.p1@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Marcus
> > > >
> > > > Thak you for answer
> > > > I don't update the the Ubuntu. Ubuntu is 20.04 lts.
> > > > Only gnuradio was update using the instruction on wiki ('InstallingGR' ) to 
> > > > version v3 10.7.0
> > > > Everything working ok but no icon is present. To lauch gnuradio we need to open 
> > > > the terminal and lauch it.
> > > > Not a big deal..but I would like to understand way.
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Il Mer 19 Lug 2023, 14:32 Marcus Müller <mmueller@gnuradio.org 
> > > > <mailto:mmueller@gnuradio.org>> ha scritto:
> > > >
> > > >     Hi David!
> > > >
> > > >     Thanks for reaching out; couldn't find time to answer you yesterday.
> > > >
> > > >     So, in best engineering manner, let's check a few assumptions with you:
> > > >
> > > >     - I'm interpreting your "routine update as "I updated Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 
> > > > 23.04",
> > > >     because that's the only version of Ubuntu that I'm aware of that ships GNU 
> > > > Radio     3.10.5.
> > > >
> > > >     - I'm interpreting your "icon of gnuradio" as the GNU Radio companion 
> > > > launcher icon
> > > >     that
> > > >     you get (for example, if you're on Gnome desktop, by pressing the "windows" 
> > > > key and
> > > >     starting to type gnuradio).
> > > >
> > > >     Are these assumptions correct?
> > > >     Which desktop are you using? If that's unclear, I think we could work with a
> > > >     screenshot of
> > > >     where you expect the icon to be.
> > > >
> > > >     So, I just checked¹, and the Ubuntu 23.04 package still installs the
> > > >     gnuradio-grc.desktop
> > > >     file which *should* make any modern desktop environment list GNU Radio 
> > > > companion in its
> > > >     launchable programs, hence my confusion.
> > > >     I compared the desktop files themselves, and they haven't changed.
> > > >
> > > >     Best,
> > > >     Marcus
> > > >
> > > >     ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
> > > >     ¹ that means I went to packages.ubuntu.com <http://packages.ubuntu.com>, 
> > > > looked up
> > > >     the `gnuradio` package in both the
> > > >     version from Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) and the version from Ubuntu 23.04 
> > > > (lunar), got the
> > > >     "list
> > > >     of files" for amd64 (bottom of the package page), and compared these using 
> > > > `comm -3`.
> > > >
> > > > >     On 18.07.23 15:25, David Martini wrote:
> > > >     > Hi all
> > > >     >
> > > >     > After a routine update of ubuntu 20.04 (gnuradio was also in the list of 
> > > > sw
> > > >     update) the
> > > >     > icon of gnuradio disappeared.
> > > >     > The gnuradio start properly from terminal.
> > > >     > The gnuradio is 3.10.5.
> > > >     > Any help?
> > > >     >
> > > >     > Thanks
> > > >     >
> > > >     > David Martini
> > > >     >