Re: [chirp_users] Trouble getting started

Try upgrading to Python 2.6 or 2.7.

Yeah, 2.5 is really old at this point and lacks some of the now-basic features of python that Chirp requires. Note that this likely means a distro upgrade. Installing python from source or other packages is likely to turn into a large string of dependency-chasing exercises that you probably don't want to start.