On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:55 PM Glenn K0LNY <glennervin@cableone.net> wrote:

Is Ubuntu 16.4 the latest that works well with Chirp?

I may stick with that if there are problems with Chirp and the OSs that use Python 3.

Glenn

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From: James Keener

To: Discussion of CHIRP

Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 1:35 PM

Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Ubuntu 20.04: no installation candidate

I've been trying to get the py3 branch to work, but it seems to not be stable, as there are still many syntax errors. Once I got chirpwx running I tried to clone my UV5R and got "ERROR: Failed to clone: Failed to communicate with radio: can't concat str to bytes", but there's no stack trace or anything to tell me where the error is occurring and "Failed to communicate with radio" occurs in many modules.

It's sad to such a good piece of software fall into such disarray. It's not in the default debian, ubuntu, or fedora repos anymore, nor do the installation instructions on the website work.

Are patches welcome for the py3 branch? I can try to dig into why the cloning is crashing. I see https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/495 but I don't know if I'll be duplicating work of if I can help in any other way.

Jim

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:06 PM Angus Ainslie <angus@akkea.ca> wrote:

Hi Pat,

I've been using the py3 branch on 20.04

Angus

On 2020-06-14 17:58, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
> I've got V2, V2.7, V3 and V3.7 installed and not aware of any
> switching mechanism.
>
>> On 14 June 2020 at 19:00 Pat Anderson <anderson5420@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I don't believe Ubuntu 20.04 automatically chooses the correct
>> pythom version, otherwise this tutorial [1] using the
>> update-alternatives command would be superfluous.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 3:32 PM Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <
>> nigel@ngunn.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 June 2020 at 15:57 Pat Anderson < anderson5420@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The PPA you need to add to get CHIRP is NOT an Ubuntu repository,
>> it is Dan Smith's repository:
>>
>> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install chirp-daily
>>
>> And point it to xenial in your /etc/apt/sources.list file
>>
>> The problem you will run into is that CHIRP requires Python 2.7,
>> and Ubuntuy 20.04 only comes with Python 3 by default.
>>
>> You can download and install Python 2.7 in Ubuntu 20.04, but then
>> you need to figure out how to switch between Python versions.
>>
>> Not an issue. Ubuntu will sort it automatically.
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to install Chirp on ubuntu 20.04. I've added the PPA and
>> updated my repos, but chirp is still unavailable.
>>
>> I tried changing the repo from "focal main" to "bionic main" just to
>>
>> see if it works, but that results in unresolvable dependencies.
>>
>> It looks like no .deb file is available for AMD64.
>>
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chirp-daily/
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>>
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