CHIRP

Marco Rabatelli wrote:

After upgrading to new Ubuntu 20.04 and added the chirp repository, there is no way to install the package due to unsolved dependencies. I have attached the terminal session with error messages. Please help me to solve this matter. Thanks and rgds, Marco

I also have updated my main system to Ubuntu 20.04 (doh!) and Chirp has disappeared and I cannot reinstall. So far 20.04 has not been such a seamless "upgrade". Any help getting Chirp back up and running is greatly appreciated.

I've had an issue installing chirp-daily myself after a clean install of kubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fosa)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots

More info: https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archive/ubuntu/chirp-snapshots
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease

Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease

Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]

Hit:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release

Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [107 kB]

Get:7 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease [3,180 B]

Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu focal InRelease [17.5 kB]

Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB]

Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu focal InRelease

Get:12 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable/main amd64 Packages [4,599 B]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [16.6 kB]
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Reading package lists... Done

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install chirp-daily
Hit:1 http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise InRelease
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease

Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease

Hit:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release

Hit:5 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease

Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease

Hit:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease

Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu focal InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package chirp-daily

I also tried manually adding the deb & deb-source lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
This only in resulted in additional warnings about the ppa:danplanet/chirp-snapshots being listed multiple times.

CHIRP depends on python2 and several other python2 related packages. These have been removed from Ubuntu 20.04

As CHIRP is migrated to python3, you can try a flatpak that is in early development in the meantime.

From https://www.flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu/

sudo apt install flatpak

If that doesnt work then try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flatpak

Now that flatpak is installed, you'll need to set up the gnome plugin and the default repository

sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Now that flatpak is all set up try out this flatpak by Richard Shaw

curl -LO https://hobbes1069.fedorapeople.org/chirp-20200430.flatpak
flatpak uninstall chirp
flatpak install chirp-20200430.flatpak

If you already had flatpak installed, you'll immediately notice a CHIRP icon in your programs list.
If you just installed flatpak, log out and log back in to see the new CHIRP icon in your programs list.

Many thanks Tony. I've followed your suggestions and everything works now. Thank you so much ;-)

Hi Marco,

Would you be able to let us know which radio(s) you successfully used the flatpak with?

Thanks

Tony Fuller wrote:

Hi Marco,

Would you be able to let us know which radio(s) you successfully used the flatpak with?

Thanks

Works with QYT KT8900D ( flatpak on Ubuntu 20.04 )

Will test other radios when I connect them.

Si

Yeah, for sure. I've successfully programmed the following radio (after the update to Ubuntu 20.04 of course):

Baofeng UV-3R +
Baofeng UV-5R
Baofeng UV-5R TP (equivalent to BF-F8HP)
Baofeng GT-3TP
Baofeng UV-9R PLUS
Baofeng BF-888s

For any other question feel free to ask me, I'll be very pleased to answer you.
Thank you so much for the help given. My best wishes for you and family, Marco.

If you clone the source code (http://d-rats.com/hg/chirp.hg) and switch to the py3 branch, you should soon™ be able to run chirpw in Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 3 only. I just submitted a series of patches that should take care of most of the errors. Assuming the patches get accepted, let me know if it's working for you.

Hi Alex, sorry but I do not understand what to do. Please can you specify more "plain" for a "dummy" user?
Thanks and regards, Marco

Hi Marco,
My patches haven't made it into CHIRP anyway. So what you could do is clone from my git repo: https://github.com/atpage/chirp. The commands to download and run it would be:

sudo apt install python3-serial
git clone https://github.com/atpage/chirp.git
cd chirp
./chirpw

Note that this is based on the CHIRP code from February 2020, so some newer updates will be missing. Let me know how it goes.