[chirp_users] installing CHIRP-next problems

Thu Mar 9 13:52:48 PST 2023

It still may impact the installation of wxpython though since that was
where I hit the snag.
It is already installed so I did not remove it and attempt a reinstall.

Jeff
KI7GJG

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 3:50 PM Jeffrey Vian <sandhillsinvestment at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the hint.  I removed attrdict and installed attrdict3, then
> reverted my changes to the system file to original and chirp works well.
>
> It would be nice if detailed instructions for Fedora and rpm based distros
> were included since the site only shows how to do an install on Ubuntu.
> Package names are not the same and several necessary dependencies are not
> listed.
>
> Luckily I have some experience with installing python packages, but not
> all users do.
>
> Jeff
> KI7GJG
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 11:51 AM Martin Cooper <mfncooper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rather than changing Python code, removing attrdict and installing
>> attrdict3 should do the trick. But since you have it working now ...
>>
>> It would fail with Python 3.10 too, since that's when the removals
>> happened. With 3.9 and earlier, it should be fine, albeit with some
>> deprecation warnings that have been there since 3.3.
>>
>> Martin.
>> KD6YAM
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 9:38 AM Jeffrey Vian <
>> sandhillsinvestment at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> attrdict was definitely used by wxpython.  I installed it using pip,
>>> then the noted errors popped up.
>>> I was able to work around the problem by adding the following lines to
>>> `/usr/lib64/python3.11/collections/__init__.py`
>>>
>>> "
>>> from _collections_abc import Mapping
>>> from _collections_abc import MutableMapping
>>> from _collections_abc import Sequence
>>> "
>>>
>>> After adding those lines for the modules that wxpython was complaining
>>> about the install completed.
>>> Note that nothing I found in the install instructions said that wheel
>>> was needed, but as a matter of course I always install wheel and wxpython
>>> also used it, building several wheels for the packages installed.
>>>
>>> Your note seems to indicate that those modules would not have erred with
>>> python 3.10 but definitely did with python 3.11.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:42 AM Martin Cooper <mfncooper at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As of Python 3.10:
>>>>
>>>> > Remove deprecated aliases to Collections Abstract Base Classes from
>>>> the collections module.
>>>>
>>>> They were originally deprecated in Python 3.3, a long time ago. This
>>>> means that the old (and now archived) attrdict package no longer works, and
>>>> needs to be replaced with attrdict3, which correctly uses 'collections.abc'
>>>> instead of 'collections' for Mapping and similar classes.
>>>>
>>>> I believe attrdict is being used by wxPython. Replacing it with
>>>> attrdict3 should work, though I don't have the environment to try it myself.
>>>>
>>>> Martin.
>>>> KD6YAM
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 8:08 AM Jeffrey Vian <
>>>> sandhillsinvestment at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I run Fedpra Linux version 37 which has python 3.11
>>>>>
>>>>> I have previously used CHIRP and am upgrading to the newer python3
>>>>> version but am encountering several issues.  Each time I try to launch the
>>>>> new  version I get an error, and have been working through them one at a
>>>>> time (which mostly requires installing a python package not previously
>>>>> installed).
>>>>>
>>>>> I have, however, hit one that I cannot find the proper fix for.
>>>>> ----
>>>>>         File
>>>>> "/home/USERNAME/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/attrdict/mapping.py",
>>>>> line 4, in <module>
>>>>>           from collections import Mapping
>>>>>       ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections'
>>>>> (/usr/lib64/python3.11/collections/__init__.py)
>>>>>       [end of output]
>>>>> ----
>>>>> Looking at the collections module installed for the system it does not
>>>>> seem to have the Mapping module as the error states and I cannot figure out
>>>>> how to fix that issue.  Does someone with python experience have any
>>>>> suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeff
>>>>> KI7GJG
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