Making the CMAKE path available to another software - cmake

I am trying to install a software package called kinsol, a non-linear equation solver, through ccmake as instructed in its documentation. The package requires a cmake version 3.12 or higher. So, I installed 3.17.3. Now, the problem is that my kinsol installation process is not able to locate ccmake and hence gives the message "ccmake ../kinsol-6.2.0
The program 'ccmake' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install cmake-curses-gui". But using the aforementioned command installs the version 3.5, which again fails in the task due to the version requirement of kinsol. I had come across a similar question in this forum and so I followed the workarounds suggested there as in putting the installation path of cmake in the .bashrc file still without any success. Does anyone know how to make the path of cmake known to the software?
Thanks,
DP

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Fixing gnuradio deleted directory

I have been following this guide to install gnuradio 3.8 onto my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, but I missed the instruction where it said "Ensure the "gitbranch" is maint-3.8", and mine said maint-3.10. After trying to install gr-iqbal, it gave me an error. For whatever reason, I thought that simply deleting the directory it was built in would let me reinstall it. It didn't.
I have tried using pybombs install gnuradio which gives me CMake Error: The source directory "/home/aboigoe/sdr/src/gnuradio" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
I have tried using pybombs rebuild gnuradio, but that obtains Package gnuradio is not installed into current prefix. Aborting.
To fix that, I tried using pybombs fetch gnuradio, which runs fine, but doesn't fix the previous error.
Finally, I tried pybombs remove gnuradio, but it says Package gnuradio is not installed. Aborting.
So you're working with pybombs! That makes this particular task easier: just delete the whole prefix, and start anew. The main thing you needed to build in that prefix was GNU Radio, and you built 3.10, and wanted 3.8, so that's a complete rebuild, anyways.
I assume you're following that guide (which comes, kind of, out of nowhere – GNU Radio has installation guides on their wiki, https://wiki.gnuradio.org) because you want exactly GNU Radio 3.8, with gr-osmosdr and gr-iqbal.
If you just want a working GNU Radio that can talk to your SDR hardware, um, don't follow random guides from the internet :) Instead, your whole problem boils down to a simple
sudo apt install gnuradio
and that's it – GNU Radio 3.10, as Ubuntu 22.04 ships it, contains gr-soapy, and Ubuntu's apt will install many available hardware drivers (for RTL-SDR, hackrf, mirisdr, bladerf, audio-interfaced hardware, red pitaya,…) without any need to do anything yourself. It just works.
The thing that will be different is that the blocks to inteface with your hardware will not reside under the "osmosd" category in your GRC, but in "Soapy", but I guess you'll deal with that rather than going through the rather convoluted way of installing an old (and not updated anymore) version of GNU Radio, to include an old (and not updated anymore) version of gr-osmosdr :)

Installing latest cmake version using cygwin for clion

I have recently installed cmake for my Clion project, using Cygwin. Its version was 3.10 but I had some troubles with Conan packet manager, and I have been adviced to upgrade cmake to version 3.11.
As cygwin didn't provide this version, I tried to install it "by hand", but it failed. So I unistalled cmake, and tried to download it again from Cygwin.
For some reason, Cygwin only provides me version 3.6.2. I don't understand why.
However, I would like to know how to install the lastest version of cmake using Cygwin?
I am working on Windows 10.
Thanks in advance.
cygwin cmake last version is 3.6.2
https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/cmake/
If you were using the 3.10, it was not the cygwin package.
If you want to use it in cygwin you have two choice:
- build it by yourself
- ask the cygwin package maintainer (but he seems not very active recently)

Python Packaging Fix: Understand Differences between Wheel and Egg; How to get local fix to wider audience?

I'm trying to understand why the easy_install of pyicu works and pip install doesn't (see below). also trying to understand "What is the difference between a PyPi project with a universal wheel and one without?" Will installs be "easier?". If so, will this merge request solve the problem of polyglot not installing on an Anaconda machine?
Need help/advice/solutions on how to best resolve python project install issue that is tied to underlying dependencies. I have two local fixes in GitHub Gists but would like to know the best way to have this fix "out there" so people like me can find it. What is the normal Python Community approach? The problem centers around three projects:
polyglot - a python multilingual NLP toolkit
pyicu - Python extension wrapping IBM's International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).
pycld2 - CLD (Compact Language Detection) library as maintained by Dick Sites
The goal:
Install polyglot on a MacOSX computer running Python Anaconda Distribution
Make the fix I found available to everyone; lots of issues published about the problem.
Here's the error trace:
The Problem (Lots of them):
Core polyglot dependency, pyicu, does not properly install when you use pip install. Discovered you must use easy_install for it build properly and work on MacOSX. If you don't use the easy_install, you get:
polyglot requires icu 54.1.1 to run in Anaconda, but...
Homebrew, the MacOSX tool to install icu, only installs version 58.1. That version is too new. Old stackoverflows advise brew install icu4c to fix problem, but Homebrew evolution makes that advice obsolete now.
pyicu does not have a universal wheel; but I created a merge request to add one to pyicu. Only way to fix this is with this channel's icu, https://anaconda.org/ccordoba12/icu. conda install icu will not work, but that's the normal conda way of doing things.
*pycld2 - CLD (Compact Language Detection) becomes a problem because after I build the wheel file locally, have to download the project and run setup.py install locally. There has to be a better way to do this right?
What I've Done to Solve the problem (should I do more, what should I do next?)
Created two Gists that can successfully install polyglot on a Mac running Anaconda for Python 2.7 or Python 3.5
Python 2.7 fix
Python 3.5 fix
created the merge request for pyicu
Both Gist fixes work. But, is this error in install tied to the wheel? If I installed pyicu with easy_install, the install works. But, with pip, it doesn't?
What are the steps to take in the Python community to fix it so people can find the solution or just pip install with no problems?
I did a test, and if the wheel file is built, the pip works with no issues.

Gnuradio companion not installed after running build-gnuradio script

I tried installing Gnuradio 3.7.9.2 using build-gnuradio script and apart from a few hiccups due to some packages (which I installed and re-ran the script again) , the script completed its run successfully (I enabled the verbose option of the script to check the output). I even added the PYTHONPATH to the .bashrc script after completing the installation. When I tried launching gnuradio-companion though, it doesnt recognise the command.
:~$ gnuradio-companion
The program 'gnuradio-companion' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install gnuradio
So, I was wondering whether I need to install grc separately after the build-gnuradio script installation ?. I apologise if this is too simple, I have tried the installation many times and searched the web for problems like this. To the best of my efforts, I was not able to find any. It would be great, if anyone can point to any existing question similar to this, or guide me in fixing this issue. Thank you.
It is advised to use PyBOMBS to install GNU Radio. Installing Out-of-Tree modules (OOTs) will be much easier afterwards. As for your problem: Did you check if your $PATH variable (echo $PATH) contains /usr/local/bin/? This should be the default installation path for a non-system install of GNU Radio.
Alternatively you can try to run /usr/local/bin/gnuradio-companion.

How to install recent mono and monodevelop?

I tried to install mono and monodevelop on centOS 6.3.
After many hours I was able to install mono but failed with monodevelop.
I'm really astonished how difficult and time consuming it is, to get a recent mono/monodevelop version on linux installed.
Is there nobody willing to write and maintain an install/compile tutorial to get the most recent mono/monodevelop/monodata/ASP.NET MVC/... version on the major linux distributions (Centos, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian) installed?
I think many people developing on Windows (with limited linux knowledge) would like to start using mono, if the boarding hurdle would be somehow lower.
It may be the most important to make Mono more used and more visible.
Please, write a tested tutorial (script) for compiling mono/monodevelop.
Thank you!
I have created a project on Open Build Service, which produces builds of the latest MonoDevelop 4.0.10 for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Fedora.
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:tpokorra:mono
For installation instructions with apt-get or yum, see:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt
I hope this will increase the usage of MonoDevelop on Linux Desktop environments.
Monodevelop 4.
If you use any *buntu. Check this.
"You can open up the terminal and install it via the following:
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keks9n/monodevelop-latest
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install monodevelop-latest"
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?p=101
Xamarin should be doing a better job at publishing the linux packages in a one-click manner. I don't care what linux distro (SuSE, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu etc) - just pick any one as the supported one and publish for it. It seemed that it used to be SuSE but even that has old packages as seen within Zypper/YaST.
Update Mono framework
Having said that, to update the Mono framework itself, without letting go of the package managers try this. This will work as long as the project dutifully publishes the RPMs. You don't want to build from source since it's a more fickle process and the setup distracts from your real objective (i.e. develop).
Obviously, please replace the URL below to what will be latest by the time you're reading this.
mkdir mono-rpms
cd mono-rpms
wget --reject "index.html*" -nd -r -e robots=off --no-parent http://download.mono-project.com/archive/3.2.3/linux/x64/
sudo zypper install *rpm
Update MonoDevelop (the IDE)
Timotheus Pokorra's answer indicates he's filling in some of the usability void left by Xamarin (Thanks Timotheus!!). You can install MonoDevelop via
http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt
Note that on SuSE I get the error
Problem: nothing provides liberation-mono-fonts needed by mono-libgdiplus-opt-3.0.12-7.1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install monodevelop-opt-4.0.12-5.2.x86_64
Solution 2: break mono-libgdiplus-opt-3.0.12-7.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
I (very reluctantly) selected to break the dependency. Note that I already had liberation-fonts (via sudo zypper install liberation-fonts). I don't know if its the same/different as liberation-mono-fonts. Anyway, hope Timotheus fixes it when he has a moment.
I'm not sure if you've already seen this, but this may help:
http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments
The most common problem that new developers have when coming to Linux from systems like Windows is not properly setting up their environment variables and so when they do the standard ./configure && make && make install routine, when it involves a number of source packages (like Mono does), any package that depends on the core package won't pick up the correct location for that base package.
Your question really doesn't explain what parts you found confusing or difficult so it's hard to address those issues.
For people unfamiliar with setting up Linux systems, it may be easier if you just go with a system like Ubuntu which has fairly recent pre-built packages (although not the latest - I don't think any Linux system keeps up with Mono releases) rather than wrestling with the learning curve of how to build everything yourself.
It is confirmed that in the near future Xamarin will support Linux and provide binaries (mono and mainline applications) for Debian and Centos derivatives, and their are already packages for Debian and Centos derivatives for technical preview. So cheers and no more pain of compiling and even parallel mono installaions.It can not get more easy than this. Check here