[chirp_users] Linux install instructions, not quite 100%...

[Dave B]

Hi.

I just installed the current Chirp on this LMDE 5 system, using the 
instructions as shown on :-
https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

There is a "slight wrinkle" in para 2.2.

The command line invocation:-

*pipx install --system-site-packages ./chirp-20230509-py3-none-any.whl*

Fails as the file "chirp-20230509-py-none-any.whl" was not present 
anywhere.  That is also an old version now as well.

OK, simple for me to figure out, but for many other windoze refugees 
probably less so, so perhaps either some additional instruction 
regarding actually getting the .whl file "First" (finding the link to 
that was not as easy as it should be I think either) or including a wget 
somewhere to pull the latest from the server, and make it all work 
"automagically" ?

Otherwise, 20230911 is working OK with the shack Kenwood TM-V71 on a 64 
bit LMDE 5 system.

Re the use of pipx, and the comment that pipx users will need to 
uninstall Chirp, before installing a new version.
Is there a reason why "pipx upgrade" cant be used?  If so, what is the 
reason?

Lastly, where is the Chirp Icon file hidden these days?  (So I can put 
it in my menu system.)

Oh, I also find that this version of Chirp, does not remember the custom 
port name for the radio, in this case /dev/ttyTMV71 as assigned by a 
udev rule for consistency.  The resulting entry in the port dropdown, is 
also mostly obscured by being shoved over to far to the left in that field.

73.

Dave G8KBV.


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