<p dir="ltr">Nice.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I was thinking about seeing if the RaspberryPi would run Chirp. Since all you really need is the Python Libs it should work fine.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 18, 2014 7:51 PM, "Michael Dodds" <<a href="mailto:mike@doddstech.com">mike@doddstech.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
My new Rev C BeagleBone Black arrived today and I decided to see if it<br>
would run Chirp successfully. Short answer: yes it does :)<br>
<br>
The Rev C version comes with 4 GB of onboard flash and comes<br>
preinstalled with Debian 7.4 with an LXDE desktop. The older versions<br>
came with Angstrom Linux and only had 2 GB onboard storage. You could<br>
use one of those by loading Debian or Ubuntu on a 4GB or larger micro SD<br>
card and booting from there.<br>
<br>
The default user is debian and will sudo with no password, so it's not<br>
the most secure setup, but that is easily changed if you like.<br>
<br>
Here is how I did it:<br>
<br>
Open up LXterm from the Accessories menu and type: sudo usermod -a -G<br>
dialout debian<br>
This adds the debian user to the dialout group so you have access to the<br>
USB ports.<br>
<br>
Then I cheated a bit: While in LXterm I did this: sudo apt-get install<br>
chirp. This installs a truly ancient version of Chirp, but takes care of<br>
all the dependencies for you. When it completes, type: apt-get remove<br>
chirp. That removes the old version of chirp but leaves the dependencies.<br>
<br>
Then download the latest version of Chirp (the tar.gz Linux source version)<br>
<br>
From LXterm, type: cd /home/debian/Downloads and hit enter. Then type:<br>
tar -zxvf chirp* (no sudo needed here)<br>
This will extract the tar.gz file into a directory under Downloads,<br>
chirp-0.4.0 in my case.<br>
<br>
Then from the file manager in the GUI, navigate to that directory and<br>
double click on chirpw and click on execute in the dialog that pops up.<br>
I'm not sure if there is a practical use for running it in the<br>
BeagleBone, but it works every bit as well as my "real" Linux box does<br>
and reads/writes just fine to all my radios, it's fun, and Linux has no<br>
issues with the counterfeit Prolific USB programming cables.<br>
<br>
I'm sure you could get fancy and actually install it, but it works just<br>
fine without it.<br>
<br>
73,<br>
Mike<br>
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