Bug #7745: Download page instructions for "brew" on macOS don't work - CHIRP

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Bug #7745

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Download page instructions for "brew" on macOS don't work

Added by Seth Russell about 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

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Closed

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Normal

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Start date:

03/29/2020

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Chirp Version:

daily

Model affected:

(All models)

Platform:

MacOS

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I read the instructions above:

Description

Instructions on download page (https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Download) for installing on macOS via brew do not currently work. The instructions say:

Homebrew users can install Chirp without the KK7DS runtime by running brew install tdsmith/ham/chirp and then running chirp from the terminal.

Running brew install tdsmith/ham/chirp results in the following output:

brew install tdsmith/ham/chirp
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated Homebrew from 78140cef4 to ef12e329a.
Updated 3 taps (homebrew/core, homebrew/cask and homebrew/services).
... 
==> Tapping tdsmith/ham
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/tdsmith/homebrew-ham'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 65 (delta 0), reused 2 (delta 0), pack-reused 62
Unpacking objects: 100% (65/65), 13.17 KiB | 158.00 KiB/s, done.
Tapped 3 formulae (93 files, 57.4KB).
==> Installing chirp from tdsmith/ham
Error: No available formula with the name "pygtk" (dependency of tdsmith/ham/chirp)
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.
(base) russellmbp:~ seth$ brew install tdsmith/ham/chirp
==> Installing chirp from tdsmith/ham
Error: No available formula with the name "pygtk" (dependency of tdsmith/ham/chirp)
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

It seems that pygtk has been removed from brew:

$brew search pygtk
No formula or cask found for "pygtk".

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Updated by Jim Unroe about 5 years ago

Status changed from New to Incomplete

Hi Seth,

I think that running CHIRP using Homebrew is obsolete. I believe that the MacOS Unified Application build is now the recommended way to run CHIRP on a computer running macOS.

Jim KC9HI

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Updated by Seth Russell about 5 years ago

Sounds good. If that's the case that Homebrew isn't recommended, and at least in my case the instructions don't seem to work, can the Download page instructions be updated?

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Updated by Bernhard Hailer about 5 years ago

I just updated the Downloads instructions. I'm not a Mac user, so please double-check what I wrote (eh, stole from here) and let me know if it should be rephrased. Thanks!

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