Thanks Paul,
Squeeze has served me well for MANY years, but I'm not quite ready for the process of backing up the system, nuking the HD, and installing a new OS.
At this point I've missed so many updates, and so low on space, trying to bump it up to the latest Deb would be like herding kittens.
Think I'm going to explore the USB Stick into RAM.
Found a couple 64Gb sticks. TahrPuppy installed nicely on one of them, going to see if Chirp might run under that, if not may try a closer full size cousin to Ubuntu on the other.
73 - Bruce
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That is because you have no python-argparse package installed. Which
does not appear to be available in your version of Debian. You *might*
be able to get more up-to-date python with backports, but that may be
difficult. Not sure.
Which probably does get you back to a usb stick. Which very lean
distributions will work, I am not sure.
On 08/05/2016 12:46 AM, Bruce LeGrande wrote:
Downloaded: "chirp-daily-20160731.tar.gz" Extracted into:
~/.install/chirp-daily-20160731/ Ran: "./chirpw" (from above dir)
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./chirpw", line 20, in
<module> from chirp import logger File './chirp/logger.py
<http://logger.py>', line 27, in <module> import argparse
ImprtError: No module named argparse
NOTE: Shortened the reported line containing "line 27" from
absolute to relative path here...
Going to take another look at the site to see if I got the right
tar.
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On Aug 4, 2016, at 14:28, W Paul Mills <AC0HY@WPMills.com
<mailto:AC0HY@WPMills.com>> wrote:
Chirp does not need compiling, just download tarball and unpack.
Enter the directory where unpacked and run ./chirpw
See:
<http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Running_Under_Linux>
On 08/02/2016 08:11 PM, Bruce LeGrande wrote:
Yup... I guess I left out the most important fact responsible for
the error message, which is the OS on the NetBook is Debian Squeeze
v6, to which doing a major update to is not an option. Have tried
installing the latest version of Chirp under that, but there are
just too many errors in compile making that not feasible. And
since there is no .Deb distribution package available, compiling
source is the only option.
That was my main reason for becoming interes ted in a LiveBoot
application on a USB stick, to bypass all that hassle.
I have managed to create the Ubuntu based TharPuppy stick to boot
from, so now perhaps I'll be able to install the latest version of
Chirp for Ubuntu. And the problem would be solved...
I was thinking that if someone here had built a RAM boot/run image
specifically for (with) Chirp, it might save me some time. Shame on
me for wanting to save time, and not duplicate efforts done by
another already...
I'll just schlog along on my own and see how things turn out.