Well I did not get real far
. Acid is built on Centos 5.x and I was trying
to root up the GNURadio prerequisites and finding that rpm support for them
stopped well before the desired versions in the RHEL5.x platform.
As Allstar seems to be in a repository format I am thinking it may be easier
to build it over something newer that has RPM support for the newer version
of the pre-requisites than source building everything over the older
versions of 5.x
So I started on a basic Desktop install of CentOS 6.x and am trying to get
the GNU parts in. Most seem to be in new enough RPM form and many are in the
base CentOS repository at 6.x platform.
One of the issues I see with ACID build is lack of GUI and
GUI parts which seem to hook into the GNURadio and/or op25 stuff. So I am
going to see how far I get that way
If I can build the GNURadio pre-requisites and compile it, I will then
attack app_rpt next.. if both of those fly, last will be op25.
We have a chicken/egg thing as ACID wants to be the core
system and GNURadio/op25 want to be the core system parts built in a GUI.
One path or the other is going to work but as no one else is
chiming in here I am guessing no one has a better CURRENT solution than the
2010-ish publishings.
Building all the modules from source means stepping through
a mine field so I would rather use rpms when I can that are made for the
versions we are trying to use.
BTW CentOS 6.x is default installed with Python 2.6.x
already
Doug
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Doug, glad you are doing that.. I also found the symbolic link info, and set
it up and verified it with python -V. It showed 2.6, which to me means if
you run python from anywhere, you get 2.6....except you don't from the
makefile, apparently.
--- In op25-dev(a)yahoogroups.com <mailto:op25-dev%40yahoogroups.com> , "Doug
Bade" wrote:
I started on a second computer last evening to try Centos/Allstar as a
base.
I used the Acid disk. I was able to get a lot of the
prerequisites
installed but a few are eluding me. I added the repoforge repository to my
machine which houses a bunch of the general linux program parts that are
needed. Most were able to be installed with yum.
I ran out of time so still have more to build. I am keeping notes on what
was in Acid and what I had to add
I am scraping build information from a
couple places. CentOS without a GUI does make it more difficult to build
some of this but in the long run will probably be a better more compact
build.
I saw that ACID has a python 2.4 directory as you noted
I will be running
into the same issue I am sure. What the answer is I found notes about
making
a symbolic link to point the machine path to the
correct python directory
(
kind of an alias thing) so it can find the correct
version. The notes were
relative to python 3. Something relative to newer builds on Arch Linux
which
is a bleeding edge version of RHEL of which CentOS is
a clone.
I do agree that the build docs need some updating and more
concise details if versions are an issue.. I see they are circa 2009-2010
ish so makes for some stumbling along the way.
Doug
KD8B
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I started with ACID, figuring it has to work there, so...
If we want this to work with the most popular Allstar distro, someone has
to
get it built on there and then publish how. While not
quite a novice, I am
not experienced enough to get it working. I also find that people that
write
instructions for building things on linux tend to
assume their audience
already knows how to build it!
--- In op25-dev(a)yahoogroups.com <mailto:op25-dev%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"Doug
Bade" wrote:
I too was building or more specifically started over on rebuilding on
Ubuntu
10.04 LTS. My build went successfully but not
sure about how I can build
Allstar Into that J I figured I wanted to try to get SOME documented
version
> to build then figure out how to get it working in the environment I want
(
which would be
over a ACID build also ) .
I was able to get GNU Radio to compile with no major errors ( read as
program stops J ) , to get op25 svn imported, the three op25 modules to
compile and install I *THINK* without major errors. Tonight I will go
through the build logs and see if I missed anything important. I had
errors
regarding port audio missing on my Debian build
but they did not go bang
on
Ububtu 10.04 LTS.
I am not trying to steal your thread here, just comparing results along
the
> way
and maybe sharing stumbles
>
>
>
> Did you start with an Acid build??? I am thinking in the *production*
> edition I will need to do that
..
>
>
>
> I have no confidence it all built correctly yet but the installs at
least
completed
Doug
KD8B
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Subject: [op25-dev] Re: Full asterisk support?
Actually I had RTFM but there's so much there I forgot about that page.
I put a lot of time into this yesterday, trying to build all the parts.
I'm
> using CentOS as that is what the ACID distro is built on for Allstar,
and
it
works well. But trying to get this stuff built is
a major exercise in
frustration. Every package I tried to build was missing some other
dependency, which was missing some other dependency, it was a chain of
missing things. I never got anything built. One make complained about
python
> not being at least 2.5, (I had 2.4), so I installed 2.6, verified it
with
python-V, and
still couldn't run the make file. It still thought I had
2.4,
and I have no idea how to fix that. I'll
probably go back to it after I
pull
my fist out of the wall but so far it has not
been fun.
--- In op25-dev(a)yahoogroups.com <mailto:op25-dev%40yahoogroups.com> ,
ikjtel
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Â What method do you use to measure the correct deviation of the C4FM
> signal?
> >
> >
> > hmm - apols if I've guessed wrong, but sounds like you haven't yet
RTFM
-
> based both on this question and the questions about the repeater.
> >
> > Have a look atÂ
> >
> >
http://op25.osmocom.org/wiki/wiki/HardwarePage
> >
> >
http://op25.osmocom.org/wiki/wiki/RepeaterPage
> >
> >
http://op25.osmocom.org/wiki/wiki/SignalScopePage
> >
> > - in particular the Hardware page has a method for setting the
deviation
-
or you could spend $ on a store-bought FMD meter
: )
73 de KA1RBI