<div dir="auto"><div>K0LNY, Then just reinstall the latest LTS Ubuntu.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">With reinstallation you won't break orca or accessibility.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even better, install SLINT based in Slackware which has excellent accessibility features and a version of orca based on the most current version. I can guarantee it works.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have you tried installing flatpak on your version of Ubuntu?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">install flatpak with sudo apt-get install flatpak then run this command:</div><div dir="auto">flatpak remote-add flathub <a href="https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo">https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then run:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">flatpak install <a href="https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20220202.flatpak">https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20220202.flatpak</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You should see chirp under Network in the menu.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But really the best thing to do is upgrade your distro. I completely recommend SLINT <a href="https://slint.fr/wiki/doku.php?id=:en:start">https://slint.fr/wiki/doku.php?id=:en:start</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But you might want to wait a week or so because Slackware 15 has just been released.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The instructions for installing CHIRP are the same, install using flatpak,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SLINT is by far the most accessible, most up to date versions of orca and brltty, three types of text mode screen readers. Emacspeak comes preconfigured with the built in option of using a inexpensively purchased IBM Text to Speech module from <a href="http://voxin.org">voxin.org</a>. SLINT is generally a full version ahead of even Debian when it comes to accessibility.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">73</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">DR</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 21:54 K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I would prefer to keep this version for
this.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I have used newer versions</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Sometimes upgrading the distro will break
accessibility with Orca.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I've apt-do-release before.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Glenn</font></div>
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<div>Update your Ubuntu, it's very easy to do. You don't even have to
reinstall.</div>
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<div><a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-ubuntu-18-04-lts-to-20-04-lts-today" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-ubuntu-18-04-lts-to-20-04-lts-today</a><br>
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<div>That's the way to go!</div>
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<div>73</div>
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<div>DR </div><br><br>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 2, 2022, 11:12 K0LNY <<a href="mailto:glenn@ervin.email" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">glenn@ervin.email</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hello,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I am still using Ubuntu 18.04 on one machine,
and I neglected to get Chirp installed onto it before it was no longer
updating.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I successfully added the Chirp repository to
it, but it would not install with apt.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">So I went to the Chirp archives and downloaded
what was stated the package for older systems, and I unpacked it, but they
all seem to be .py files.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I did not find a .sh file for
installing.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I'm only a moderate Linux user, so maybe
someone can give me some steps for getting Chirp onto this
Ubuntu.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I'd rather not use a newer Ubuntu, since for
this, it is just there mainly for using Chirp, and it can be an older Chirp,
as all my radios would work fine with Chirp that is a couple years
old.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks.</font></div>
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