Quoting Tony Fuller goldstar611@hotmail.com:

Well sometimes you can go into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dansmith-ubuntu-chirp-snapshots-blahblahblah and change "focal" to "bionic", save the file and cross your fingers.

In this case apt-get update works but apt-get install fails because python2, libxml2, pygtk and pyserial are not installed. (Probably others but I stopped after digging)

Long story short, python2 and all of the baggage was dropped in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) and some things need to be compiled from source now. (I think)

Bad news: I wasn't able to compile pygtk dependencies from source (Cairo and gobject)

I may try apt-source tomorrow but expect more rabbit holes there too.

If anyone gets Chirp on Ubuntu 20.04 I'd be interested in knowing how to do that :)

Tony ________________________________ From: chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com on behalf of Pat Anderson anderson5420@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:30:45 PM To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Install issues

Sounds backwards. You install the repository first, then do an update, and then you do the install. Here are the commands you need to add the repository for CHIRP and install CHIRP in your Ubuntu system:

If you are using Ubuntu linux (or a compatible variant such as Mint) you should install and use the PPA like this:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install chirp-daily

After installing the build from the PPA, new updates will be included in your normal system software updates. Also see the Running on Linuxhttp://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Running_Under_Linux#serial-port-permissions page for additional steps required to gain access to your serial port.

Pat Anderson

KD7OAC

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 2:27 PM <w4rss@radioclub.orgmailto:w4rss@radioclub.org> wrote:

I'm having issues installing the repository for Chirp in Ubuntu. I just installed the newest version of Ubuntu and then tried to add the Chirp repository to it.

Here is the output from the terminal:

More info: https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archive/ubuntu/chirp-snapshots Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease Ign:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu focal InRelease Err:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu focal Release 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Any suggestions how to overcome this? The manpage is not really very helpful.

Thanks Dick W4RSS

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That's kind of what I figured, Tony. I now remember reading that somewhere. It looks like there maybe a workaround in the works once the final version is released. I found the follwing on fosslinux.com:

"The latest word from Matthias Klose, the Debian developer who has been coordinating much of the Python 2 removal effort, is that libpython-dev, python, python-minimal, and other packages no longer exist as part of the python-defaults package in the Ubuntu 20.04 archive.

The official Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release slated for April will not include these packages. For other packages, python2-minimal along with another python* packages exist to satisfy Python 2 dependencies. A new python-pointing-topython2 package that points to python is anticipated for the Ubuntu “Focal” repository."

Another "wait and see" I guess.

Dick W4RSS