<font color="#000000"><b>Delete the old ones? But (sniff) that's like selling my first spark gap 8(<br clear="all"></b></font><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#33cc00">Alvin Koffman</font><br></b><font color="#3333ff"><i><b>When thou goest ... altogether on a smoke..<br>
Let the heavens be glad Exodus 4:21;19:18; 1 Chr 16;31 KJV</b></i></font><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Kurt Savegnago <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ksaves2@sbcglobal.net">ksaves2@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
With Linux, open in home directory:<br>
<br>
gzip -cd chirp-daily-XXX | tar xfv -<br>
<br>
I then move my old saved rig files to the new directory or one could just<br>
save the rig files in a separate file and always save to that separate file. When happy with the new build, delete the old one.<br>
<br>
Kurt KC9LDH<br>
<br>
<br>
--- On Thu, 2/23/12, Robert Terzi <<a href="mailto:rct@r-t.org">rct@r-t.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> From: Robert Terzi <<a href="mailto:rct@r-t.org">rct@r-t.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Howto install daily builds?<br>
> To: "Discussion of CHIRP" <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>><br>
> Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 11:13 AM<br>
> On 2/23/2012 11:09 AM, Dan Smith<br>
> wrote:<br>
> >> Yes there is no problem downloading it or<br>
> installing the release, what I<br>
> >> wanted to know is how to install the daily builds<br>
> after downloading<br>
> ><br>
> > Eh? You have no problem installing but want to know how<br>
> to install? I'm<br>
> > confused :)<br>
><br>
> It's probably worth stating that trying the daily builds<br>
> under<br>
> linux is best done from a terminal window (a command line<br>
> session).<br>
> It's possible to do with with a graphical file manager, but<br>
> is easier<br>
> from the command line. On linux, daily build don't<br>
> need to be installed<br>
> so there will be no menu entry or desktop launch icon.<br>
><br>
> 1. Download the daily build to some place in your home<br>
> directory (or even /var/tmp)<br>
> 2. make a new, clean temporary directory for the daily<br>
> build<br>
> 3. cd into that directory and use tar to unpack the daily<br>
> build there.<br>
> 4. Run the daily build by typing ./chirpw. The ./ is<br>
> important to run<br>
> the chirpw in the current directory and not a previous<br>
> version that got<br>
> installed on the system in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin<br>
><br>
> Hope this helps,<br>
> --Rob<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> > The daily builds are complete. Just extract the tar.gz,<br>
> which will<br>
> > create a versioned directory as a result. Go in there<br>
> and run chirpw<br>
> > manually, or do the normal install process as you would<br>
> with any release.<br>
> ><br>
> > I would recommend not installing the daily builds into<br>
> your system, just<br>
> > because python's distutils doesn't make it easy to<br>
> uninstall things, and<br>
> > since the daily builds could change so much day to<br>
> day.<br>
> ><br>
> > It's pretty easy to just run chirpw from within the<br>
> daily directory that<br>
> > the tarball extraction creates.<br>
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