Yeah you need gr-osmocom And be carefull I got caught out it hides under the tree under the very top above the blocks
I have a hack rf so I had to install hackrf stuff but for the rtl stuff it comes under osmocom Andrew Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Aug 2017, at 3:18 am, Marcus Müller <marcus.muel...@ettus.com> wrote: > > Dear Bill, > > I think rtl-sdr is just the driver for the dongles. > > What you'd probably like to have is gr-osmosdr, which contains the > osmocom source, which is the interface block for such hardware. > > By the way, don't know about Mint, but on other similar distros, you can > directly install what you need through apt-get, and don't have to build > stuff from source, just to get GNU Radio + tools to run :) Of course, > it's not that bleeding edge, but if the gnuradio package in your Mint is > at least 3.7.9, I don't think it'd pay for a beginner to build stuff > from source. > > So, if in doubt, make sure pybombs didn't use pip to install stuff > system-wide (it really shouldn't be doing pip --system, but it does, and > it breaks systems if things are later "properly" installed through > distro's package management), if in doubt "pybombs remove packagename" > all the things you've installed via pybombs. Make sure you're not > currently in a shell where you loaded the setup_env.sh. > Then, "sudo apt-get install gr-osmosdr" should actually do the trick of > install GNU Radio 3.7.9 (if you're on the most recent Mint release) from > the package archives, install the rtl-sdr driver, install gr-osmosdr and > let you use gnuradio-companion. > > Just my two cents on this: Older Linux versions of Mint seem to have > extremely outdated versions of GNU Radio, so you shouldn't do that here. > In some cases, distro package maintainers don't enable all the GNU Radio > features that pybombs would, and that a user would also want, and then > it's better to use pybombs to install GNU Radio. But for general purpose > usage, I'd recommend first checking which version of GNU Radio your > distro brings, and if it seems rather recent, simply use that, until > problems show up. Pybombs' great, but it's not perfect, and for many > cases, you simply don't need to build stuff from source :) My personal > long-term goal is rather to make GNU Radio so easy to maintain that all > distros always package the latest, greatest, fulliest-featured GNU Radio > instead of maintaining a tool that puts the work of building GNU Radio > from source on the users. I personally still see pybombs as development > tool for people willing to mess with the source code rather than a > preferred way of installation for the rest. > > Cheers, > Marcus > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
