[chirp_users] Ubuntu 20.04: no installation candidate

[Pat Anderson]

Good to know, I may give 20.04 another try alongside 16.04. Assuming Chirp
works for me on 20.04, I could delete 16.04 (I run Ubuntu on a Chrome book
under crouton).

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 8:48 AM <wa0sbu at kslimmer.com> wrote:

> Pat;
>
>    I have versions 2.7 and 3.8 on my Ubuntu 20.04 systems.  Chirp works
> fine, it does find the correct version.  Not sure what the link is about
> that you posted, but its not required for Chirp.
>
>
> On 6/14/20 6:00 PM, Pat Anderson wrote:
>
> I don't believe Ubuntu 20.04 automatically chooses the correct pythom
> version, otherwise this tutorial
> <https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-20-04-python-version-switch-manager> 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>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 14 June 2020 at 15:57 Pat Anderson <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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