=== 12/19/08 ===

James and Bob go to the grid.

The first and lamest attempt was a simple apt-get install gnuradio. This failed miserably due to unresolved dependeniceis. Following the instructions of (http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/DebianPackages) for Ubuntu installations, we added

{{{
deb http://gnuradio.org/ubuntu stable main contrib
deb-src http://gnuradio.org/ubuntu stable main
}}}

to the /etc/apt/sources.list

This didn't help. The trail of failed dependencies goes as follows:
{{{
gnuradio -> python-gnuradio -> python-gnuradio-comedi ->  libcomedi-0.7.22
}}}

the last one is not installable as there is no package target. 

It should be noted that the baseline image is based on debian (and not ubuntu, so this may be the problem).  

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We're going to attempt the debian source install, the apt install doesn't work for the previously mentioned reasons. 
We installed the ''build-essentials'' package. And we nnow modify the sources list again.
we added
{{{
 deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
}}}

We then ran '''apt-get build-dep gnuradio''' which had 519 megs of stuff to install. It was followed by '''apt-get build-dep usrp''' which had nothing to install.

All of this was to "prep" the image for a build of the gnu-radio software by source. There is no source package for it, we have to check it out from svn. (note: this required installing ''subversion'' package). 

Running 
{{{
svn co http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/branches/releases/3.1 gnuradio
}}}

yeilds a large download and a gnuradio directory. Hopefully with all the dep building of prior this should be a make / make install simple setup. 

First running ./bootstrap required automake, that we didn't have. After apt-getting the ''automake'' package and all its dependencies, ./bootstrap chugs along. ''' Note: this take a while, and throws a bunch of perl warnings'''