[chirp_users] Ubuntu 20.04: no installation candidate
Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Mon Jul 27 11:55:11 PDT 2020
Nothing has fallen into disaray.
If YOU install Py2, available from the python.org website, and the 4 dependencies it needs, all will work.
The proceedure for that has been published in detail both here and on the Chirp Facebook group several times.
> On 27 July 2020 at 14:35 James Keener <jim at jimkeener.com> wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get the py3 branch to work, but it seems to not be stable, as there are still many syntax errors. Once I got chirpwx running I tried to clone my UV5R and got "ERROR: Failed to clone: Failed to communicate with radio: can't concat str to bytes", but there's no stack trace or anything to tell me where the error is occurring and "Failed to communicate with radio" occurs in many modules.
>
> It's sad to such a good piece of software fall into such disarray. It's not in the default debian, ubuntu, or fedora repos anymore, nor do the installation instructions on the website work.
>
> Are patches welcome for the py3 branch? I can try to dig into why the cloning is crashing. I see https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/495 but I don't know if I'll be duplicating work of if I can help in any other way.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:06 PM Angus Ainslie < angus at akkea.ca mailto:angus at akkea.ca > wrote:
>
> > > Hi Pat,
> >
> > I've been using the py3 branch on 20.04
> >
> > Angus
> >
> > On 2020-06-14 17:58, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
> > > I've got V2, V2.7, V3 and V3.7 installed and not aware of any
> > > switching mechanism.
> > >
> > >> On 14 June 2020 at 19:00 Pat Anderson < anderson5420 at gmail.com mailto:anderson5420 at gmail.com >
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I don't believe Ubuntu 20.04 automatically chooses the correct
> > >> pythom version, otherwise this tutorial [1] using the
> > >> update-alternatives command would be superfluous.
> > >>
> > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 3:32 PM Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <
> > >> nigel at ngunn.net mailto:nigel at ngunn.net > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 14 June 2020 at 15:57 Pat Anderson < anderson5420 at gmail.com mailto:anderson5420 at gmail.com >
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The PPA you need to add to get CHIRP is NOT an Ubuntu repository,
> > >> it is Dan Smith's repository:
> > >>
> > >> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots
> > >> sudo apt-get update
> > >> sudo apt-get install chirp-daily
> > >>
> > >> And point it to xenial in your /etc/apt/sources.list file
> > >>
> > >> The problem you will run into is that CHIRP requires Python 2.7,
> > >> and Ubuntuy 20.04 only comes with Python 3 by default.
> > >>
> > >> You can download and install Python 2.7 in Ubuntu 20.04, but then
> > >> you need to figure out how to switch between Python versions.
> > >>
> > >> Not an issue. Ubuntu will sort it automatically.
> > >>
> > >> Hi
> > >>
> > >> I'm trying to install Chirp on ubuntu 20.04. I've added the PPA and
> > >> updated my repos, but chirp is still unavailable.
> > >>
> > >> I tried changing the repo from "focal main" to "bionic main" just to
> > >>
> > >> see if it works, but that results in unresolvable dependencies.
> > >>
> > >> It looks like no .deb file is available for AMD64.
> > >>
> > > http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chirp-daily/
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Any help would be appreciated.
> > >> Thanks.
> > >>
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> > > Links:
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> > > [1] https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-20-04-python-version-switch-manager
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