<div dir="ltr"><div>I've been trying to get the py3 branch to work, but it seems to not be stable, as there are still many syntax errors. Once I got chirpwx running I tried to clone my UV5R and got "ERROR: Failed to clone: Failed to communicate with radio: can't concat str to bytes", but there's no stack trace or anything to tell me where the error is occurring and "Failed to communicate with radio" occurs in many modules.</div><div><br></div><div>It's sad to such a good piece of software fall into such disarray. It's not in the default debian, ubuntu, or fedora repos anymore, nor do the installation instructions on the website work.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Are patches welcome for the py3 branch? I can try to dig into why the cloning is crashing. I see <a href="https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/495">https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/495</a> but I don't know if I'll be duplicating work of if I can help in any other way.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jim<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:06 PM Angus Ainslie <<a href="mailto:angus@akkea.ca">angus@akkea.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Pat,<br>
<br>
I've been using the py3 branch on 20.04<br>
<br>
Angus<br>
<br>
On 2020-06-14 17:58, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:<br>
> I've got V2, V2.7, V3 and V3.7 installed and not aware of any<br>
> switching mechanism.<br>
> <br>
>> On 14 June 2020 at 19:00 Pat Anderson <<a href="mailto:anderson5420@gmail.com" target="_blank">anderson5420@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> I don't believe Ubuntu 20.04 automatically chooses the correct<br>
>> pythom version, otherwise this tutorial [1] using the<br>
>> update-alternatives command would be superfluous.<br>
>> <br>
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 3:32 PM Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:nigel@ngunn.net" target="_blank">nigel@ngunn.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> On 14 June 2020 at 15:57 Pat Anderson < <a href="mailto:anderson5420@gmail.com" target="_blank">anderson5420@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> <br>
>> The PPA you need to add to get CHIRP is NOT an Ubuntu repository,<br>
>> it is Dan Smith's repository:<br>
>> <br>
>> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots<br>
>> sudo apt-get update<br>
>> sudo apt-get install chirp-daily<br>
>> <br>
>> And point it to xenial in your /etc/apt/sources.list file<br>
>> <br>
>> The problem you will run into is that CHIRP requires Python 2.7,<br>
>> and Ubuntuy 20.04 only comes with Python 3 by default.<br>
>> <br>
>> You can download and install Python 2.7 in Ubuntu 20.04, but then<br>
>> you need to figure out how to switch between Python versions.<br>
>> <br>
>> Not an issue. Ubuntu will sort it automatically.<br>
>> <br>
>> Hi<br>
>> <br>
>> I'm trying to install Chirp on ubuntu 20.04. I've added the PPA and<br>
>> updated my repos, but chirp is still unavailable.<br>
>> <br>
>> I tried changing the repo from "focal main" to "bionic main" just to<br>
>> <br>
>> see if it works, but that results in unresolvable dependencies.<br>
>> <br>
>> It looks like no .deb file is available for AMD64.<br>
>> <br>
> <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chirp-daily/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chirp-daily/</a><br>
>> <br>
>> <br>
>> Any help would be appreciated.<br>
>> Thanks.<br>
>> <br>
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