Either way is fine, just choose one and stick to it. Me personalty I use packages, but I re-pointed my Debian machine from |wheezy to jessie|, so I at the cost of being behind on security updates (machine is not networked) I'm slightly closer to the cutting edge, but still behind using |ppa:gqrx/|(|releases| and snapshots), mostly because I did not know that it existed when I set the machine.
packages ------------- pros: Easy to install ( https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager ) Fast to install Easy to update (sudo apt-get update) Fast to update cons: Can lag behind the cutting edge of changes to the source code (|releases|, but maybe not snapshots ) In theory a malicious person could own your machine, but the same is true from an OS distributor. pybombs pros: Works on more Linux distributions At the cutting edge of changes to the source code Easy to install ( http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki ) Easy to update (./pybombs update) More secure since you have built the binaries, no need to trust that the package binaries are not malicious (99.999999999% of the time, not an issue). cons: Always at the cutting edge of changes to the source code Slower to install and update - compiling all the source code into binaries takes time On 07/07/2015 22:06, [email protected] wrote: > There have been several suggestions as to how to install. What are the pros > and cons of the methods. I am Linux illiterate so please be explicit. > > Thank you all for your help. > > Regards, > Al
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