I'm sure by now that you are aware that Linux Mint has gone to 20 and if I understand it right they have changed Pkg bases. Are there plans to upgrade chirp to work with this or should we hold off for now? Just curious as I still have one laptop that I have not upgraded for this reason. Thanks for any info you can give. 73 Joel k4dkx
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:28 PM Joel Lautzenheiser via chirp_users chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com wrote:
I'm sure by now that you are aware that Linux Mint has gone to 20 and if I understand it right they have changed Pkg bases. Are there plans to upgrade chirp to work with this or should we hold off for now? Just curious as I still have one laptop that I have not upgraded for this reason.
Thanks for any info you can give.
73 Joel k4dkx
CHIRP already has a "flatpak" in the download area that should workaround the problem. Plus I have seen videos and tutorials that show how to locate and install the dependencies that are no longer available in Ubuntu 20.04. Plus you can always run CHIRP from a Linux distribution running on a live USB stick (it is amazing how well today's Linux distros can run from a flash drive).
Jim KC9HI
This has been discussed many times on this list but Chirp currently uses the now EOL Python2 and GTK2 packages. Work to port this to newer versions has been started but it's going to take a long time. Until that day comes, please read the post from wa0sbu@kslimmer.com on 7/21/20 @ 6:20pm of one effective workaround for Ubuntu 20.04 based distributions.
--David KI6ZHD
On 07/25/2020 09:26 AM, Joel Lautzenheiser via chirp_users wrote:
I'm sure by now that you are aware that Linux Mint has gone to 20 and if I understand it right they have changed Pkg bases. Are there plans to upgrade chirp to work with this or should we hold off for now? Just curious as I still have one laptop that I have not upgraded for this reason.
Thanks for any info you can give.
73 Joel k4dkx
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