Richard,
I took a look at MyPaints flatpak file on GitHub and adapted it for chirp. It's **very** rough around the edges (theme, icons, desktop shortcut, no /dev/try access, outdated gtk runtime, no network access) but the GUI comes up!
I'm happy to help collaborate but I'm a horrible maintainer of things. But maybe that's the easy part now that the baseline json is fleshed out?
Here is the json file I have working on Linux Mint 19.3 https://gist.github.com/goldstar611/cb0037ee29ae315bb2f0211e69d95799
Tony ________________________________ From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com on behalf of Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 10:01:16 AM To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: [chirp_users] Fedora COPR for Fedora 32 and EL 8
As a stop gap measure I have created a COPR for chirp with the missing python2 requirements.
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/hobbes1069/chirp/
I have built chirp for Fedora 32, Fedora Rawhide, and EL 8.
One of the dependencies is libxml2 which is a C library with python bindings. Hopefully it doesn't cause any issues with the Fedora version but I'll have to stay on top of any updates to the Fedora version.
This a very much a less than ideal situation but I haven't found a better one. I tried setting up a flatpak but gave up. The documentation is too poor and trying to write JSON is an exercise in frustration.
Thanks, Richard KF5OIM