[op25-dev] Re: Repeater Build attempts

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n4dav n4dav at verizon.net
Tue Mar 5 13:09:34 UTC 2013


I have gotten a GUI running on both XIPAR and ACID, pretty easily by running yum groupinstall X-windows and groupinstall gnome-desktop-environment. (Syntax may be a little off there). That gives you a gui to work with.  FWIW, Of the two, I like ACID better and that seems to be the more popular. As far as getting GNR Radio and everything else built -- well, you found as I did, thats a different story.

--- In op25-dev at yahoogroups.com, "Doug Bade" <kd8b at ...> wrote:
>
> I will try to build on CentOS 6.x tonight which in theory I got the farthest
> and it has a kernel that should be asterisk friendly as well as GNURadio
> friendly. I will  detail the build as far as it gets and what errors I am
> unable to resolve myself. I have about 30-40 hours into the project of
> trying to build in various forms. I am sorry I did not keep notes on each
> failure. I have located some notes on getting zaptel to compile in a base
> CentOS system, maybe I can get past that hurdle long enough to get to
> asterisk and then GNU radio.
> 
> I will provide more concise details when I can get at least something
> running that IS a step forward. So far that has not happened.
> 
> I can easily get the asterisk part running by using allstar or Xipar.. but
> in both cases it is not a GNURadio friendly environment. So I am forced to
> build a GNURadio friendly environment and try to get asterisk running. if I
> want them on one box and that has been problematical. 
> 
> Doug
> 
> KD8B
> 
> From: op25-dev at yahoogroups.com [mailto:op25-dev at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of ikj1234i
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 10:35 AM
> To: op25-dev at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [op25-dev] Re: Repeater Build attempts
> 
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> OK, don't know what we could be doing different in a radical enough way to
> blast through this - other than to work patiently on the issues, one at a
> time until there is progress. I'm very glad to see that you haven't just
> given up. We probably would not be successful to attempt to put out a
> "binary" release of anything either, for the same basic reasons you've
> already listed.
> 
> I run asterisk on a centos-5 system and run gnu radio on various versions if
> ubuntu 10 and 11. It may simplify things to separate the two packages and
> there is certainly no need to shoehorn everything into a single machine/OS
> version. The asterisk component is designed to communicate with the gnu
> radio components via UDP whether they're running in the same machine or not.
> In general the repeater stuff tries to follow this rule, mostly
> successfully.
> 
> > I tried several versions of CentOS 5.x , and all result in various modules
> > being of incorrect versions available or would not compile. I 
> 
> which modules ?
> 
> tried CentOS
> > 6.x and got closer but failed to compile Zaptel for the reasons stated
> > above.
> > 
> > So if the intent is to allow us to build over a wide array
> > of OS's I can say that Isn't going happen. The modules are so critical
> that
> 
> which modules ?
> 
> > have been used that I have yet to find a version that will build.
> > 
> > So unless someone wants to give some specifics in versions of OS that are
> > currently running asterisk as well as op25 as well as GNURadio, I have
> been
> > thus far unable to find a combination that supports all of them. 
> > 
> > I tried starting with Allstar and with XiPar and neither has
> > support for GUI nor was I able to get a GUI to run, apparently that
> process
> 
> As previously mentioned, it might be easier to start with the CLI version. I
> don't know if the app_rpt stuff even uses the GUI. There may be no benefit
> to having a GUI, not sure.
> 
> > that maybe tell us what version is in use so we
> > can get Zaptel to compile??? If that part fails, the rest is moot. Without
> > Asterisk running the repeater part is dead. 
> 
> Yeah asterisk is a beast but it really shouldn't be THAT hard to compile.
> Zaptel is necessary due to the "dummy" zap channel support that's used
> internally. In addition this list isn't necessarily the right forum for
> problems compiling asterisk and/or app_rpt - but the problems might be
> trivial, so it wouldn't hurt to at least post a few more details here....
>


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