Error on iridium-extractor running fresh ubuntu installation about gr-iridium HOT 8 CLOSED

The main issue here is the version hell that gnuradio is putting us through :/ This is not at all a beginners mistake.

We will have to look into what Ubuntu really does and try to reproduce your results. Might take some time.... I'll have to ask for a bit of patience until this can be figured out.

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You mention that you have Gnuradio "3.9.2.0" installed. The output of the script mentions version "3.8.1.0" though. Are you sure there are no Gnuradio 3.8 files installed on that computer?

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Well I am not entirely sure this is a fresh ubuntu installation on a virtual machine (after failing the installation before) with no other programs installed the first thing I did was commence the install of gnuradio.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuradio/gnuradio-releases
I installed GNURadio from the releases repo using that command and then apt-get update as doing the default command of apt-get install gnuradio would install the older 3.8 version

The command gnuradio-config-info --version outputs 3.9.2.0

I then proceeded with the installation of gr-iridum.

I then received another error saying that the library "iridium" was not found. So I proceeded to type this command
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages
Which solved the issue but then brought about another one
ImportError: No module named osmosdr

So I went ahead and typed
sudo apt-get install gr-osmosdr

But now I'm receiving that other error that I've put as a screenshot.

I'm sorry if I've made a beginners mistake here and I'm wasting everyone's time, I found this project from a Youtube tutorial and they did not encounter any of these sorts of errors that I encountered so perhaps I've just done something fundamentally wrong ?

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The problem is that gr-osmosdr is installed from the Ubuntu 20.04 repositories. It depends on gnuradio-3.8 and when running apt install gr-osmosdr a gnuradio 3.8 installation is pulled in together with it. This causes the master branch of gr-iridium to not work anymore as the system now has a mix of gnuradio 3.8 and 3.9 installed.

Currently there are two options for you:

• Do not install gnuradio 3.9 from the gnuradio ppa. Install gnuradio 3.8 from Ubuntu repositories and then use the maint-3.8 branch of gr-iridium
• Install gnuradio 3.9 from the gnuradio ppa. Do not install gr-osmosdr from the Ubuntu repositories. Build and install gr-osmosdr as described here: https://osmocom.org/projects/gr-osmosdr/wiki

from gr-iridium.

While the two options @schneider42 mentioned are probably the best ones, there is a third one:

• install everything(gnuradio-3.9, gr-osmosdr & gr-iridium) from source with pybombs

If you follow the commands in the the README of https://github.com/Sec42/sec-gr/ you should end up with a working gnuradio/gr-iridium build in a local prefix. Be warned that this will take around ~20G of space and likely a few hours of compile time depending on your hardware.

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I just wrote some code which allows to use soapy instead of osmosdr. This hopefully works out of the box with gnuradio-3.9 without the need of installing gr-osmosdr.

You can check whether soapy works for you by running "SoapySDRUtil --find" with the SDR plugged in. If it can see your SDR you might be able to use it.

To try it, checkout & build the "soapy" branch, and then run:

iridium-extractor -D 4 examples/rtl-sdr-soapy.conf

If anyone tries this, please add a comment wether that works for you or not.

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https://github.com/Sec42/sec-gr/

While the two options @schneider42 mentioned are probably the best ones, there is a third one:

• install everything(gnuradio-3.9, gr-osmosdr & gr-iridium) from source with pybombs

If you follow the commands in the the README of https://github.com/Sec42/sec-gr/ you should end up with a working gnuradio/gr-iridium build in a local prefix. Be warned that this will take around ~20G of space and likely a few hours of compile time depending on your hardware.

I follow the README in the Github link and it works on Ubuntu 20.04 with gnuradio-3.9! It takes around 1-hour with i7-6600U processor.

from gr-iridium.

I've mentioned this in the readme: https://github.com/muccc/gr-iridium/blob/master/README.md#gnuradio-39-on-ubuntu-or-debian

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