Looks a lot like my issues as well, in Arch Linux in SteamOS. No matter whatever I attempt to use, be it the instructions on the Linux installation page on the Chirp site or the page about installing the outdated Chirp version in the threads about installing it on SteamOS. If I can manage to get it installed, I cannot uninstall it, update/upgrade it, nor reinstall it if I do manage to get rid of it, (usually by finding the app and deleting it's folder in my apps folder.)

Ray Marx

Ray.Marx.67@gmail.com

On Sat, Jun 1, 2024, 12:12 PM Dave B via Users < users_at_lists.chirpmyradio.com_raymarx@duck.com> wrote:

Well.

Just for the heck of it, I went ahead, following the published (on https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux ) instructions.

What follows below, was performed on LMDE 5. (Linux Mint Debian Edition. In effect, Mint without the Ubuntu influences.)

Chirp was not running, I had checked it worked OK before uninstalling.

A fresh file was downloaded from :-

https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20240531/chirp-20240531-py3... Without errors or warnings...

Then, from my home folder in a terminal session...

dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx uninstall chirp uninstalled chirp! ✨ 🌟 ✨

That worked...

dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages /home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl

(The path and file *are valid*) The result?

ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10' Cannot determine package name from spec '/home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors.

Checking my installed version of Python 3...

dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ python3 --version Python 3.9.2

Even copying the downloaded file to my home folder and ...

dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10' Cannot determine package name from spec '/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors.

or just ...

dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10' Cannot determine package name from spec '/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors.

So what gives? As can be seen the basic error is the same regardless of how I reference the package file.

As before, I'm a relatively experienced Linux user, and had installed Chirp Next using pipx in the past, but into a virgin system.

Are the website instructions wrong or just incomplete, or have I misinterpreted the instructions?

Either way, THIS is why an automated script is needed, even if there has to be different versions for (example) Fedora vs Debian based distro's.

If Python needs updating, then.. !!! THE REQUIRED MINIMUM VERSION SHOULD BE MENTIONED ON THE WEBSITE !!! (Sorry to shout, but...)

Dave G8KBV.

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