I had been using Chirp on Windows 11 without issue, but I decided I wanted to give it a shot on my Mint 21.2 (Victoria) laptop. The following is what I noted. FWIW...I consider myself to be pretty well-versed in Linux, although my experience with Ubuntu-based distros is lesser and more recent.
- Installed the dependencies with 'apt install' with no issue.
- "managed flag" vs "no managed flag"...I wasn't sure what this meant, and there isn't any explanation other than Ubuntu and Debian version numbers. It looks like maybe it has something to do with Python virtual environments. I had to dig around a little to find that my Mint version is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so NO "managed flag". I feel like other, less experienced, Linux users might struggle a bit to figure this out.
- I had downloaded the latest .whl file into ~/Downloads, so...'pip install Downloads/chirp-blah.whl'. This worked fine, and chirp launches out of ~/.local./bin.
- A step could be saved if pip were just pointed to the whl file online. Would it be possible to have something like 'chirp-latest.whl' that links to the latest version?
Overall, it was pretty smooth and I completed the steps in about 10 minutes, including figuring out the Mint vs Ubuntu version thing, although I have not yet had Chirp communicate with a radio! ;-)