New subject: Users Digest, Vol 188, Issue 5

1 Sep 2024

      Hi All.
Firstly good news, the 20240827 version of Chirp previously downloaded, 
has now installed with pipx without issue.  (happy dance!)
I took the advice bellow, and eventually (after first renaming/moving 
suspect folders etc "out of the way", and making sure nothing else broke.)
Swamped out any remains of the older Python 3.9.x folders and data 
hiding in ~/.local
I then removed the remnants of those experiments, again checking nothing 
else breaks.
I next got "diverted" by other life needs, so it got forgotten about.  
The PC earlier today did a big OS (LMDE6) update, lots of lib's and 
files, and the kernel, after which of course I rebooted as it requested, 
no issues...
I then noticed and read Jeffrey's mail below, so went and tried the pipx 
install again.
Firstly, I'd forgotten I had uninstalled pipx earlier, so had to 'sudo 
apt install pipx' again, that completed, and appeared to be a clean 
install of pipx 1.1.0
That took "an age", from what I could tell of all the "stuff" flying up 
the terminal session, it did a prety good job of refreshing a lot of 
Python3 as well.
(I have the archive of that output if anyone wants to examine it.  A 
little over 11k of plain text.)
I then did...  (as a user, not using sudo)
*
*
*dave@hp-compaq-sfdt*:*~*$ pipx install --system-site-packages ~/Downloads/chirp-20240827-py3-none-any.whl
   installed package*chirp*  *20240827*, installed using Python 3.11.2
   These apps are now globally available
     - chirp
     - chirpc
     - experttune
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨
*dave@hp-compaq-sfdt*:*~*$ chirp
And it all seems to work again.
Chirp reports (using help | about) that it is :-
CHIRP next-20240827 on Python 3.11.2 wxPython 4.2.0 gtk3 (phoenix) 
wxWidgets 3.2.2
MANY Thanks to all who contributed to the investigation.   If it was 
something I did bad, I'd like to know please, If so, it might also be 
worth updating the chirp install instructions warning others not to do 
what I did wrong, if that was the case.  Especially as there are often 
subtle but significant differences between different flavours of Linux.
All the best etc.
Dave G0WBX.
On 01/09/2024 10:17, users-request@lists.chirpmyradio.com wrote:
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:10:37 -0500
From: Jeffrey Viansandhillsinvestment@gmail.com
Subject: [users] Re: Chirp install on Linux failure, again.
To: CHIRP users listusers@lists.chirpmyradio.com
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Yeah,
I did not try the 'pipx install --system-site-packages ...` command since I
know that pip on fedora installs packages as a user installed package when
not using sudo or as root.  Those packages are installed under
~/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages which mimics the location of system
packages on fedora.
I will try the pipx command on another VM to test how that works on fedora.
Jeff
KI7GJG
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:55:10 +0100
From: Dave Bg8kbvdave@googlemail.com
Subject: [users] Re: Chirp install on Linux failure, again.  (Dan
   Smith)
To:users@lists.chirpmyradio.com
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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.

Dave G0WBX.
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