Thanks for the replies.
Well...
After some research. (And still as yet unable to locate "The Pipx people".)
(The most informative site I found is at:- https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/troubleshooting/ But I've not yet found a way to locate, let alone to reach out to the Pipx crew.)
Anyway, after reading through that page, and also several other similar sites.
I uninstalled/purged the antique distro version of Chirp.
Then removed/purged python3-venv and python3-pip
That also removed pipx.
System restart, no issues.
I then :- sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip Completed with no error.
Pipx still didn't exist, so...
sudo apt install pipx Also completed with no errors.
pipx list now returns
:*~*$ pipx list nothing has been installed with pipx 😴
System restart again, no issues.
Then retried... $ pipx install --system-site-packages ./Downloads/chirp-20240827-py3-none-any.whl
The install still fails in the same way as before.
:-(
Looking at the structure of the .whl file, it "seems" to be a simple compressed archive of a folder structure that contains the application.
So, how to install that manually, and invoke it correctly?
Or, how to install from sources?
Otherwise, I'm stumped.
73.
Dave G0WBX.