<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm on a new install of 20.04 and CHIRP is working fine (for me) after those minor patches for Python3 and GTK syntax. I didn't have to jump through any hoops to install prereqs. Actually, I think pyserial was the only thing I needed to install.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I tried running my fork in a fresh 18.04 VM, and only needed to install `future` and `serial`. Unfortunately I don't have a way to test on other platforms (e.g. Windows).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Note that I am operating from the py3 branch, so maybe some work was already done there to remove the problematic dependencies you mentioned.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:11 PM Tony Fuller <<a href="mailto:goldstar611@hotmail.com">goldstar611@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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So the rabbit hole extends outside the codebase and IMO won't help users who are not upgrading from an older Ubuntu install. (Did you upgrade or install fresh?)
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For instance, it's not feasible for the everyday chirp user to collect all of the dependencies needed for chirp to run on Ubuntu 20.04 from a fresh install because many of those packages aren't in the focal fossa repo.
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For instance, try to apt install python-libxml2 python-gtk and you may see a message like "couldn't find package xyz but is referenced by another package" from apt.
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