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I just looked on the Chirp website, Wiki, and FAQ and only the
download page gives a hit that Linux users should use the Flatpak
method. Beyond that.. no details are shared.<br>
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Could someone who has access to the web page take what D.J.J wrote
down below and add it to a "Linux Flatpak" FAQ entry? It might need
some additional items listed under a dependency section like the
native OS needs to have X version of Qt runtime libraries installed,
etc.<br>
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--David<br>
KI6ZHD<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/27/2022 05:40 PM, D.J.J. Ring,
Jr. wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">John,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Here's how
to install flatpak. $ just means your using the regular user
terminal, </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">if you
typed "sudo su" you'd be at the root terminal which is #.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Download
the latest CHIRP flatpak from here:<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/">https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As of this
moment the current version is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20220515.flatpak">https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/chirp-daily-20220515.flatpak</a><br>
<br>
Rest of the work is from the terminal.<br>
<br>
First, install Flatpak:<br>
<br>
$ sudo apt install flatpak<br>
<br>
The other howtos seem to have missed this next step. You
need to use<br>
flatpak to install the “freedesktop” platform. First update
flatpak<br>
and your paths.<br>
<br>
$ flatpak update -v<br>
<br>
This will give you a warning about paths, something like:<br>
<br>
Note that the directories<br>
<br>
'/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share'<br>
'/home/[username]/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share'<br>
<br>
are not in the search path set by the XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment<br>
variable, so applications installed by Flatpak may not
appear on your<br>
desktop until the session is restarted.<br>
<br>
Since we now have to log out anyway, now might be a good
time to make<br>
sure you are in the dialout group.<br>
<br>
Use the groups command to list your active groups. If the
group<br>
“dialout” does not appear, add yourself to the group
(replace<br>
[username] with your username):<br>
<br>
$ sudo usermod -aG dialout [username]<br>
<br>
Now restart your session (or computer) and return to the
terminal.<br>
<br>
~$ flatpak update -v<br>
Looking for updates…<br>
Nothing to do.<br>
<br>
Don’t worry about installation directory warnings if you
haven’t<br>
installed anything yet. Those will be created later.
Important is that<br>
we got rid of the path warning. Moving on….<br>
<br>
Now you need to get the Freedesktop repository installed:<br>
<br>
$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo">https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo</a><br>
<br>
and then install the Freedesktop Platform:<br>
<br>
$ flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform//19.08<br>
<br>
This might take a while its a big (~0.5Gb) download. Grab
some coffee<br>
and make some QSO’s….. Maybe check out my club’s website:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://w6ek.org">http://w6ek.org</a><br>
<br>
Finally we can install Chirp! (replace .flatpack filename
with your<br>
downloaded version)<br>
<br>
$ flatpak install Downloads/chirp-daily-20220515.flatpak<br>
<br>
You’re done! You can run chirp from your applications menu
or from the<br>
command like like this:<br>
<br>
$ flatpak run com.danplanet.chirp<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My distro
has a defective GIMP application so I used flatpak to
install the app from there, the only negative is that I
cannot type "gmp" from a terminal and have gimp run, I have
to use teh menu entry.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Try it -
it's excellent and it's the future of applications in Linux.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">73</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">DR</div>
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