Well.
Just for the heck of it, I went ahead, following the published (on
https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux )
instructions.
What follows below, was performed on LMDE 5. (Linux Mint Debian
Edition. In effect, Mint without the Ubuntu influences.)
Chirp was not running, I had checked it worked OK before uninstalling.
A fresh file was downloaded from :-
https://archive.chirpmyradio.com/chirp_next/next-20240531/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl
Without errors or warnings...
Then, from my home folder in a terminal session...
dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx uninstall chirp
uninstalled chirp! ✨ 🌟 ✨
That worked...
dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages
/home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl
(The path and file *are valid*) The result?
ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10'
Cannot determine package name from spec
'/home/dave/Downloads/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package
spec for errors.
Checking my installed version of Python 3...
dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ python3 --version
Python 3.9.2
Even copying the downloaded file to my home folder and ...
dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install --system-site-packages
./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl
ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10'
Cannot determine package name from spec
'/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors.
or just ...
dave@hp-compaq-sfdt:~$ pipx install ./chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl
ERROR: Package 'chirp' requires a different Python: 3.9.2 not in '<4,>=3.10'
Cannot determine package name from spec
'/home/dave/chirp-20240531-py3-none-any.whl'. Check package spec for errors.
So what gives? As can be seen the basic error is the same regardless of
how I reference the package file.
As before, I'm a relatively experienced Linux user, and had installed
Chirp Next using pipx in the past, but into a virgin system.
Are the website instructions wrong or just incomplete, or have I
misinterpreted the instructions?
Either way, THIS is why an automated script is needed, even if there has
to be different versions for (example) Fedora vs Debian based distro's.
If Python needs updating, then.. !!! THE REQUIRED MINIMUM VERSION
SHOULD BE MENTIONED ON THE WEBSITE !!!
(Sorry to shout, but...)
73.
Dave G8KBV.
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