[chirp_users] Chirp and Ubuntu 10.04

KE5EOT
Thu Sep 29 14:08:23 PDT 2011


I should have been more specific, this is on a Wouxun KG-UVD1P.

Randy (KE5EOT)
   ARRL, QCWA, ARES, RACES
      http://ke5eot.webs.com


On 09/29/2011 03:01 PM, Randy Morton wrote:
> It's now working, but with some unusual side effects. The channels 
> program, but it resets all of the rest of the settings to the factory 
> default. Still a fine program, though.
>
> Randy
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:33 PM, KE5EOT <ke5eot at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ke5eot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I just installed it and it runs. I still have battles to fight
>     with the programming cable, but that's a different story. Many
>     thanks for getting this up and running.
>
>
>     Randy (KE5EOT)
>      ARRL, QCWA, ARES, RACES
>     http://ke5eot.webs.com
>
>
>     On 09/29/2011 11:52 AM, Steve Conklin wrote:
>
>         The chirp package is now available in the Ubuntu-hams PPA for all
>         Ubuntu series except Karmic, which is still building.
>
>         https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-hams/+archive/ppa/
>         <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-hams/+archive/ppa/>
>
>         Information about how to subscribe to this PPA is included at
>         the link.
>
>         The Ubuntu-Hams PPA includes a lot of other ham software which
>         the ubuntu-hams team backports from the latest release to older
>         Ubuntu Series. These include chirp, d-rats, fldigi, cqrlog,
>         hamlib, and more.
>
>         If you're using Ubuntu, this PPA is a good source of the latest
>         package updates.
>
>         [shameless plug]
>
>         Also, if you're using Ubuntu in the shack, you might be
>         interested in
>         joining Ubuntu-hams:
>
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHams
>
>         The IRC channel we hang out in is a good place to get help.
>
>         73 de AI4QR
>
>         Steve
>
>         On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:57 AM, KE5EOT<ke5eot at gmail.com
>         <mailto:ke5eot at gmail.com>>  wrote:
>
>             Thanks, I'll uninstall and wait on the new package. Let me
>             know when
>             it's ready and I'll do a test install if you'd like
>             outside confirmation.
>
>             Randy (KE5EOT)
>               ARRL, QCWA, ARES, RACES
>             http://ke5eot.webs.com
>
>
>             On 09/23/2011 10:59 AM, Steve Conklin wrote:
>
>                 OK, I've made some progress in troubleshooting this.
>                 The package in
>                 the PPA is just plain broken,
>                 and I suggest you install from the tarball until I can
>                 fix it, and
>                 don't use the PPA. In fact, I'm
>                 going to delete the broken package from the PPA.
>
>                 The package installs the modules to the wrong
>                 directory, putting them
>                 in /usr/share instead
>                 of in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>
>                 So I understand the problem, but I can't fix the
>                 packaging right away
>                 because I'm traveling for
>                 the rest of today. I can probably fix it by Monday.
>
>                 The reason this didn't fail on the machine I'm on now
>                 is that the
>                 files in the right location were
>                 left over from a previous release which I had
>                 installed manually and
>                 forgotten was even installed
>                 (i.e. I thought this was a clean machine). I'm sorry
>                 for the problems
>                 caused by the bad package,
>                 but thanks for the help in tracking this down.
>
>                 Steve AI4QR
>
>                 On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Alvin
>                 Koffman<ka9qlq at gmail.com <mailto:ka9qlq at gmail.com>>  
>                  wrote:
>
>                     I just download the newest .gz and expand it to a
>                     dir in my /home/alvin/bin
>                     I keep scripts in
>                     Alvin Koffman
>
>                     IN brightest day, in blackest night,
>
>                     No evil shall escape my sight
>
>                     Let those who worship evil's might,
>
>                     Beware my power...
>
>                     My Holy Spirit's light!
>
>
>                     On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:27 PM,
>                     KE5EOT<ke5eot at gmail.com <mailto:ke5eot at gmail.com>>
>                        wrote:
>
>                         If no one objects, I'll keep it on the list.
>                         It might help the next
>                         person. My thanks for all the help!
>
>                         randy at randy-laptop:~$ python
>                         Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
>                         [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
>                         Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or
>                         "license" for more information.
>                         >>>    import sys
>                         >>>    print sys.path
>                         ['', '/usr/lib/python2.6',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10',
>                         '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0',
>                         '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0',
>                         '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode',
>                         '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages']
>                         >>>
>
>                         Randy (KE5EOT)
>                            ARRL, QCWA, ARES, RACES
>                         http://ke5eot.webs.com
>
>
>                         On 09/22/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Conklin wrote:
>
>                             Can you do the following for me?
>
>                             start python and type the next two lines
>                             into the python interpreter
>                             and paste the results here:
>
>                             $ python
>                             ... python startup banner ...
>
>                                         import sys
>                                         print sys.path
>
>                             You can email me directly if you want to
>                             take this off-list.
>
>                             Steve
>
>                             On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Steve
>                             Conklin<steve at conklinhouse.com
>                             <mailto:steve at conklinhouse.com>>
>                               wrote:
>
>                                 On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Steve
>                                 Conklin<steve at conklinhouse.com
>                                 <mailto:steve at conklinhouse.com>>
>                                   wrote:
>
>                                     Actually, I saw this same problem
>                                     in the preliminary packaging that
>                                     I've been working on, but I
>                                     haven't tracked down the problem. I'll
>                                     have another look.
>
>                                     Steve
>
>                                 I was running the exact same version
>                                 on this 10.04 machine, and it was
>                                 working.
>                                 I just uninstalled and reinstalled and
>                                 it works fine after that, too.
>                                 So I'm not sure
>                                 what's going on.
>
>                                     On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:05 PM,
>                                     Dan Smith<dsmith at danplanet.com
>                                     <mailto:dsmith at danplanet.com>>
>                                       wrote:
>
>                                             I used the instructions on
>                                             this site.
>
>                                         Okay.
>
>                                         Steve, is it possible that the
>                                         package isn't installing the
>                                         module in
>                                         the right place on 10.04 to
>                                         get picked by chirpw?
>
>                                         Thanks!
>
>                                         --
>                                         Dan Smith
>                                         www.danplanet.com
>                                         <http://www.danplanet.com>
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