CHIRP

There is a significant amount of information missing from your report.
Are you new to Chirp?
Are you a user or a developer? How much experience?
What platform (windows, mac, linux; version) are you running.
What is your purpose for running setup? What are you trying to achieve?
Without any information, your report is likely to be dismissed as PEBKAC.

Looks like he is using python3 to run python2 code. @Paul Wheeler can you please use python2?

Also the above still holds: Why are you using setup and what are you trying to achieve?

Are you new to Chirp? Yes
Are you a user or a developer? User How much experience? enough
What platform (windows, mac, linux; version) are you running. Mint Linux cinnamon 20
What is your purpose for running setup? To get the program installed so I can run it. What are you trying to achieve? Program my radio (uvr-5) There is no Chirp in my version of synaptic.

Without any information, your report is likely to be dismissed as PEBKAC. I saw no place to enter the above data. No not pebcak!

Looks like he is using python3 to run python2 code. @Paul Wheeler can you please use python2?

I ran python. Did not know that it was 3 versus your 2.

I ran python2 and got these different errors:

python2 setup.py
No handlers could be found for logger "chirp.drivers.anytone778uv"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 6, in
from chirp.drivers import *
File "/home/paul/Downloads/chirp-daily-20210212/chirp/drivers/generic_xml.py", line 17, in
import libxml2
ImportError: No module named libxml2

Per synaptic, libxml2 IS installed. Version 2.9.10+dfsg-5 Gnome xml library

Here is my system information:

inxi
CPU: 6-Core AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 1376/1550/3400 MHz
Kernel: 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64 Up: 33d 20h 50m
Mem: 6520.7/16021.1 MiB (40.7%) Storage: 1.82 TiB (26.7% used) Procs: 300
Shell: bash 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38

inxi - S

System:
Host: paulx64mintlinux19 Kernel: 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana

great Paul. Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions. From what I see you have the Chirp source on your computer. Don't know if you did this with a mercurial clone, or grabbed it some other way. Will assume it is current.
For a user, running Chirp from source is doable, but not the best way, and not advisable. If you ask for help, you will not likely easily find a version number. You can try runnning the following while I look up my debian/ubuntu notes. You may run into error messages related to package/module dependencies.
Navigate to your chirp directory. Execute python chirpw --log ~/chirp_debug.log --log-level debug

I tried something like this on Debian 10 and Ubuntu:

o sudo apt install flatpak
o sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
o flatpak remotes ==> 'flathub system'
o sudo flatpak update
o flatpak list --app ==> 'could be an empty list'
o sudo flatpak install ~/Downloads/chirp-daily-20210212.flatpak

N.B. the ==> is not part of the command but a cue to watch for something like that which follows.
You must make sure that you have a suitable flatpak remote hub in order to pick up the freedesktop dependency.
see the jpg attachment in issue #8571 .

Good Luck.

P.S. setup.py is used to build a distribution package. I have not yet had success running a build myself.
Also, the top right of the Chirp homepage, download page, activity page, etc. has a search box you can use.
Also, on the homepage, in getting started, there is a section on getting help, that will lead you to the mail list where you can ask for general help.

Thank you for helping me.

All I wanted to do do was to download/install/run chirp.

I found no package in the mint linux synaptic package manager for chirp, so I went to the chirp website at [1]. All I found for linux was the tar and flatpak files. Per the instructions at the bottom of the page at [1]. I downloaded and unpacked the tar file, hence the source (setup.py) file that I attempted to run, thinking it was an installation script.

I did research and found that flatpak is used to package programs, which was new information for me. I then tried running flatpak, because it was installed on my system. Unfortunately, the flatpak program did not think that 'flatpak chirp-daily-20210212.flatpak' and several variations were valid commands. I later found that there was an error in the 'flatpak' documentation! A bug report for that is being written.

I was left wondering where the package for mint linux (debian) installation is located.

Hence my 'bug' report.

Once I figured out the correct way to invoke the flatpak program, it "installed" the chirp software. Unfortunately, the command "chirp" did NOT work, nor was there a 'man' page for it. So, now it is 'installed' with no clue on how to run it.

I assume the person that created the flatpak file ]2] will need to look into this.

So, now what do I do?

[1] https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/
[2] chirp-daily-20210212.flatpak

if I recall correctly, there should be a link/icon installed into you wm interface, that should launch the application. Let me know if you need more details.

check that the app is in flatpak:

flatpak list --app ==> chirp com.danplanet.chirp

run the application from the installed icon or
from the terminal:

flatpak run com.danplanet.chirp