I was trying to install GNURadio on my Ubuntu 16.04 using the follwoing command:
wget http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio && chmod a+x build-gnuradio && ./build-gnuradio
which is found on the following GNURadio webpage link:
(http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/InstallingGRFromSource)
First, when the script was checking for packages, I noticed the following two warning messages:
"Failed to find package 'python-wxgtk2.8' in known package repositories. Some things may not build as a result"
"Failed to find package 'libzmq1-dev' in known package repositories. Some things may not build as a result"
which at the end did not install the WX GUI or the associated WX GNURadio blocks. I tried to manually install "python-wxgtk2.8" using the following command:
sudo get-apt install python-wxgtk2.8
but I got the the following message:
"Package python-wxgtk2.8 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source"
I am not sure if this is an Ubuntu 16.04 or GNURadio issue. Could you please provide a step-by-step instructions on how to solve this issue and have the WX blocks installed in my GNURadio?
If you try to install python-wxgtk3.0 using sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk3.0 it may report it as already the newest version.
You can modify the script to reflect the change from python-wxgtk2.8 to python-wxgtk3.0 in the section for version 16.*
And change libzmq1.dev to libzmq.dev in the section for version 16.*
This was also recommended here https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2271836