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    [–] v81 4 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Great, you can accomplish the bare essentials with Linux.

    Now how do I install a program called chirp for programming 2 way radios?

    Searched for a week and gave up as each set of instructions lead down a broken, redundant dependency rabbit hole with no solution in sight, Flatpack this, snap that, no explanation or even a searchable clue that could begin me a solution.

    In windows I just unzip the nightly build to a directory of my choice, run the executable and it works.

    Sure... Not everyone knows or needs to know about these edge case applications, but point stands, it works in windows, and everyone encounters an edge case sooner or later.

    I'm keen to ditch the Microsoft hole, and I have no issue with making an effort to learn, but I can't afford to or my life in hold for hours or days at a time in order to accomplish things that already work in seconds.

    I think my simple issue here is... I'm not incompetent. I can comfortably navigate a fine system in a shell, can mount and unmount, can tar -xvzf a tarball, can do most things up to writing a shell script from scratch (could cobble something

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    No software is guaranteed to run on all platforms: the developers choose to make it available or not.

    I did some quick googling, and it seems fairly easy to install it:

    Use Ubuntu (if you're not familiar with, and don't want to be familiar with terminal basics), and install chirp from the Ubuntu App store. Snap is just a name of their package format, and their app store links to snap craft.

    If you're not using Ubuntu, that's your choice, you'll either have to install snap, then do the same, but it's more work. Or play with the terminal just a bit to follow their instructions.

    Details

    If you're on Ubuntu or have snap installed - it's a one click operation to install chirp: https://snapcraft.io/chirp-snap

    If you're on another distribution by choice: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

    this page has a 3 step install for mainstream Linux distributions:

    1. Install dependencies (they've listed the commands)
    2. Install chirp and Python dependencies (commands provided)
    3. Run chirp

    [–] v81 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm no bash wizard, but I grew up with computers through the 80's and am comfortable with using a cli, doesn't bother me at all.

    My OP got messed up with the Lemmy app I'm using and thus a large chunk went missing.

    I'm actually using Raspian on a raspberry pi, and I don't think there is a binary for armhf available through the more typical means.

    For everything else I just apt-get install xxx.

    I'll revisit later.

    I appreciate the effort in your post.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Given how Python-centric the manual install process is, I don't think CHIRP is distributed as a compiled binary, I think it's a Python application.

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