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Thanks Paul,<br>
Squeeze has served me well for MANY years, but I'm not quite ready for the process of backing up the system, nuking the HD, and installing a new OS.<br>
At this point I've missed so many updates, and so low on space, trying to bump it up to the latest Deb would be like herding kittens.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Think I'm going to explore the USB Stick into RAM.<br>
Found a couple 64Gb sticks. TahrPuppy installed nicely on one of them, going to see if Chirp might run under that, if not may try a closer full size cousin to Ubuntu on the other.</p>
<p dir="ltr">73 - Bruce<br><br></p>
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<div class="gmail_quote" >On Aug 5, 2016, at 15:04, W Paul Mills <<a href="mailto:AC0HY@WPMills.com" target="_blank">AC0HY@WPMills.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue">That is because you have no python-argparse package installed. Which<br>does not appear to be available in your version of Debian. You *might*<br>be able to get more up-to-date python with backports, but that may be<br>difficult. Not sure.<br><br>Which probably does get you back to a usb stick. Which very lean<br>distributions will work, I am not sure.<br><br>On 08/05/2016 12:46 AM, Bruce LeGrande wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> Downloaded: "chirp-daily-20160731.tar.gz" Extracted into: <br> ~/.install/chirp-daily-20160731/ Ran: "./chirpw" (from above dir)<br> <br> Traceback (most recent call last): File "./chirpw", line 20, in<br> <module> from chirp import logger File './chirp/<a href="http://logger.py">logger.py</a><br> <<a href="http://logger.py">http://logger.py</a>>', line 27, in <module> import argparse <br> ImprtError: No module named
argparse<br> <br> NOTE: Shortened the reported line containing "line 27" from<br> absolute to relative path here...<br> <br> Going to take another look at the site to see if I got the right<br> tar.<br> <br> Sent from BlueMail <<a href="http://www.bluemail.me/r">http://www.bluemail.me/r</a>><br> <br> On Aug 4, 2016, at 14:28, W Paul Mills <AC0HY@WPMills.com <br> <mailto:AC0HY@WPMills.com>> wrote:<br> <br> Chirp does not need compiling, just download tarball and unpack.<br> Enter the directory where unpacked and run ./chirpw<br> <br> See: <br> <<a href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Running_Under_Linux">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Running_Under_Linux</a>><br><br> On 08/02/2016 08:11 PM, Bruce LeGrande wrote:<br> <br> <br> Yup... I guess I left out the most important fact responsible for<br> the error message, which is the OS on the NetBook is Debian Squeeze<br> v6, to which doing a major update to is not an option. Have
tried<br> installing the latest version of Chirp under that, but there are<br> just too many errors in compile making that not feasible. And<br> since there is no .Deb distribution package available, compiling <br> source is the only option.<br> <br> That was my main reason for becoming interes ted in a LiveBoot <br> application on a USB stick, to bypass all that hassle.<br> <br> I have managed to create the Ubuntu based TharPuppy stick to boot<br> from, so now perhaps I'll be able to install the latest version of <br> Chirp for Ubuntu. And the problem would be solved...<br> <br> I was thinking that if someone here had built a RAM boot/run image <br> specifically for (with) Chirp, it might save me some time. Shame on<br> me for wanting to save time, and not duplicate efforts done by <br> another already...<br> <br> I'll just schlog along on my own and see how things turn out.<br></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>