[Solved] How to install linux gnuradio companion with lime driver source

I started with a clean image of Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.4 LTS

This will install everything:

sudo apt install python-pip
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip install pybombs
pybombs recipes add gr-recipes git+https://github.com/gnuradio/gr-recipes.git
mkdir prefix/
pybombs prefix init -a default prefix/default/ -R gnuradio-default
pybombs install gr-osmosdr
cd prefix/default
source ./setup_env.sh
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install limesuite liblimesuite-dev limesuite-udev limesuite-images
LimeUtil --find
gnuradio-companion

note that the next time you want to run gnu-radiocompanion, you will need to run

cd prefix/default
source ./setup_env.sh
gnuradio-companion

now you have a SDR environment configured to pybomb install from the GitHub - gnuradio/gr-recipes: Main GNU Radio recipe repository for use with PyBOMBS repository.

Hi,

I tried your steps, but unfortunately, my board is not recognized by SoapySDR…
Could you tell me which version of SoapySDR you’re using?

Hi. im on ubuntu 16.04 LTS on an I3-4005u laptop.
here is what i did:
https://wiki.myriadrf.org/Lime_Suite (STEP 2.1) is all i had to do
it adds PPA for myriad (Limesuite and Soapy) and do not follow this guide for GQRX on ubuntu as it will break stuff.
http://gqrx.dk/download/install-ubuntu <<<< Do not do this as of this writing.
at least i dont recommend it,
but everything from the myriad setup should give you latest Limesuite. mine is 18.04

to get gqrx working i just got the 2.11.4 appimage and you download it and extract it or just double click on it. it opens up with good device selection i think

After playing with this configuration that I posted, there is still some integration problems. I ended up using this build with much greater results:

My experience with separate PPAs for the LimeSDR stuff is mismatched versions of things in gnuradio so you end up with a version that can use the LimeSDR, and a version that can use your other SDRs. Building everything from source and using Docker to put it in its own container was the only way I could keep things sane.