Reply To: Cannot Get gr-bb60c files to install – problems with cmake

[Gary]

UPDATE: SUCCESS! Turned out I needed to load “swig” (available in Software Manager). Once I did that, then went through the process from “cmake ..” on down, I opened GRC, ran the flowgraph, and it worked!

Once I summarize my notes (they’re, uh, kinda messy), I’ll post another thread explaining how I did it.

Thanks, again!
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Long story short: I had tried to install Gnu Radio from source and with Pybombs, both of which gave me more errors than did the BB60C “cmake..” command. I followed your links and the answer was to install “gnuradio-dev”.
However, even with that, I kept getting:

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/local/lib/libbb_api.so.4 is not a symbolic link

after the “sudo ldconfig” command.

I thought it might still work, so I opened Gnu Radio Companion and added the “BB60C: IQ Source”. However, when I attempted to run the simple flowgraph (it was simply attached to a frequency sink to look at the spectrum), I got the following errors in GRC:

Generating: '/home/gary/gnuradio/bb60SpectrumAnalyzer.py'
>>> Warning: This flow graph may not have flow control: no audio or RF hardware blocks found. Add a Misc->Throttle block to your flow graph to avoid CPU congestion.

Executing: /usr/bin/python -u /home/gary/gnuradio/bb60SpectrumAnalyzer.py

Warning: failed to XInitThreads()
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gary/gnuradio/bb60SpectrumAnalyzer.py", line 156, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/gary/gnuradio/bb60SpectrumAnalyzer.py", line 144, in main
    tb = top_block_cls()
  File "/home/gary/gnuradio/bb60SpectrumAnalyzer.py", line 116, in __init__
    self.bb60c_source_0 = bb60c.source(1e9, -20, -1, -1, 2, samp_rate, False, False, 0, 0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'source'
inotify_add_watch("/home/gary/.config/qt5ct") failed: "No such file or directory"

I don’t know if those two issues are related.

Thank you for the help. I think I’m pretty close to making this work. Once I do, I’ll do a short write-up explaining to others how I got it to work in Mint 19.1.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Gary.