I _think_ 19.10 has 2.7 installable (and installed by default), but I don't have a machine running that right now.
18.04 is the last LTS release with support. It's what I run on my other laptop. Jim On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 2:55 PM Glenn K0LNY <glenner...@cableone.net> wrote: > Is Ubuntu 16.4 the latest that works well with Chirp? > I may stick with that if there are problems with Chirp and the OSs that > use Python 3. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* James Keener <j...@jimkeener.com> > *To:* Discussion of CHIRP <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> > *Sent:* Monday, July 27, 2020 1:35 PM > *Subject:* Re: [chirp_users] Ubuntu 20.04: no installation candidate > > I've been trying to get the py3 branch to work, but it seems to not be > stable, as there are still many syntax errors. Once I got chirpwx running I > tried to clone my UV5R and got "ERROR: Failed to clone: Failed to > communicate with radio: can't concat str to bytes", but there's no stack > trace or anything to tell me where the error is occurring and "Failed to > communicate with radio" occurs in many modules. > > It's sad to such a good piece of software fall into such disarray. It's > not in the default debian, ubuntu, or fedora repos anymore, nor do the > installation instructions on the website work. > > Are patches welcome for the py3 branch? I can try to dig into why the > cloning is crashing. I see https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/495 but I > don't know if I'll be duplicating work of if I can help in any other way. > > Jim > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 9:06 PM Angus Ainslie <an...@akkea.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Pat, >> >> I've been using the py3 branch on 20.04 >> >> Angus >> >> On 2020-06-14 17:58, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote: >> > I've got V2, V2.7, V3 and V3.7 installed and not aware of any >> > switching mechanism. >> > >> >> On 14 June 2020 at 19:00 Pat Anderson <anderson5...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I don't believe Ubuntu 20.04 automatically chooses the correct >> >> pythom version, otherwise this tutorial [1] using the >> >> update-alternatives command would be superfluous. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 3:32 PM Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF < >> >> ni...@ngunn.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 14 June 2020 at 15:57 Pat Anderson < anderson5...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> The PPA you need to add to get CHIRP is NOT an Ubuntu repository, >> >> it is Dan Smith's repository: >> >> >> >> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots >> >> sudo apt-get update >> >> sudo apt-get install chirp-daily >> >> >> >> And point it to xenial in your /etc/apt/sources.list file >> >> >> >> The problem you will run into is that CHIRP requires Python 2.7, >> >> and Ubuntuy 20.04 only comes with Python 3 by default. >> >> >> >> You can download and install Python 2.7 in Ubuntu 20.04, but then >> >> you need to figure out how to switch between Python versions. >> >> >> >> Not an issue. Ubuntu will sort it automatically. >> >> >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> I'm trying to install Chirp on ubuntu 20.04. I've added the PPA and >> >> updated my repos, but chirp is still unavailable. >> >> >> >> I tried changing the repo from "focal main" to "bionic main" just to >> >> >> >> see if it works, but that results in unresolvable dependencies. >> >> >> >> It looks like no .deb file is available for AMD64. >> >> >> > >> http://ppa.launchpad.net/dansmith/chirp-snapshots/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chirp-daily/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> chirp_users mailing list >> >> chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com >> >> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users >> >> This message was sent to Pat Anderson at anderson5...@gmail.com >> >> To unsubscribe, send an email to >> >> chirp_users-unsubscr...@intrepid.danplanet.com >> >> _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing >> >> list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com >> >> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This >> >> message was sent to Nigel Gunn, W8IFF at ni...@ngunn.net To >> >> unsubscribe, send an email to >> >> chirp_users-unsubscr...@intrepid.danplanet.com >> > >> > Nigel A. 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