Hi, That's true for now, but ubuntu's repos aren't made for developing. The repos are just too old within a few month. And then recent (or self developed) OOTs won't work.
Regarding running the GUI: In the readme I've included the commands for X forwarding (that's your approach). Works fine on my machine! The VNC approach targets especially windows users. Greetings Stefan On 04/08/2016 04:55 PM, Kevin Hofschröer wrote: > Hello Stefan and all, > > I also recently experimented with GR and Docker and at least got it working > so far. > My approach was different in that I used the ubuntu:16.04 base image where > gnuradio v3.7.9.1 (so pretty new) is available pre-compiled in the official > ubuntu repositories. > Of course that approach isn't something for developers, but if you > 1. apt-get install gnuradio-dev > 2. apt-get remove gnuradio-dev > 3. install some missing header packages, thrift and other libs that are not > included in the gnuradio-dev package and > 4. get the gnuradio v3.7.9.1 sources and compile it yourself , > you can get a good basis for devs. Of course, if you just want to play around > with gnuradio, you probably don't need these steps. > > Another thing that might be useful: > If you want GUI-applications without using VNC (AND if you use linux), you > might want to have a look at > http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/ > where the idea is to basically share your .Xauthority file and your > /tmp/.X11-unix socket. It looks pretty hacky, but it worked perfect for me. > For QT, you seem to need to replace > "-e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" > within the run command (or use a Dockerfile ENV line) with > "-e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY". > Of course, this wouldn't work that way for Windows. But I could imagine that > devices can cause problems there as well because of the small VM that you > need. > > Hope you find some of this helpful. > > Greetings, > Kevin > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
