Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread Scott Lopez
Well I don't know what to tell you. CHIRP works just fine for me, and I suspect it works well for many other Mac users. Perhaps it's time you put that 50 years of IT experience and degree to good use and work to resolve your issues. I answered the questions you posed earlier, not sure what you mean

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Chirp is just fine for most users. If you're having problems then don't use Apple hardware. There's always RTSystems offerings at $50 per radio type. I'm sometimes seeing Chirp updates daily. That sounds like support. The other problems are with Apple not liking software that they haven't approv

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread JOHN E BECK Sr
I’m not looking for perfection but stability across multiple platforms. A software product that ‘reacts’ to bug fixes and a whining user platform is far from stable. CHIRP echos the failure of the ‘out of tune’ bandwagon of HT manufacturers to the degradation of those who mfg. quality products

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
For future updates just download and reinstall the new flatpak. Generally no need to update unless the changes affect your radios. > On 08/09/2021 17:43 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > > To summarize installing Chirp using flatpak in Debian: > > If you are using GNOME Desktop environment, install

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
To summarize installing Chirp using flatpak in Debian: If you are using GNOME Desktop environment, install the Software Flatpak plugin: [as root:] apt update | apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak Non-GNOME Desktop Environments: For Debian Buster and newer (including Bullseye and Sid): A f

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
You have to download the Chirp flatpak from the Chirp download page and then install with cd ~/Downloads sudo flatpak install chirp-daily-20210830.flatpak > On 08/09/2021 15:09 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > > OK, I am trying installing flatpak, but it doesn't find chirp anywhere. > > i used

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
It's not an error, it's just a warning that the repository doesn't have a security key. Just ignore it. That's the reason for the [trusted=yes] bit. > On 08/09/2021 14:58 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > > > Nigel, > > How do I get rid of this error? > > > W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/g

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
I didn't realize I had to download the flatpak from here: https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/ Problem solved. DR On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:09 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > OK, I am trying installing flatpak, but it doesn't find chirp anywhere. > > i used the instructions here: >

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread Scott Lopez
I don't know, I'm currently using CHIRP on my M1 MBA running Big Sur 11.5.2 and programming the 8 radios I have from Baofeng to Wouxun with custom channel lists, scan groups and even setting radio features. CHIRP is awesome software, and while it's not perfect, no software is, but it's certainly qu

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Ken, That's not how it works. If you have a FT-270 to loan, post that availability to https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/1099 The two duplicate requests were deleted because they were duplicates of the first request. A post saying you are volunteering a radio for a developer to use would NOT be

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread JOHN E BECK Sr
Basically you’ve said it all - You get what you pay for! You on the Titanic dodging icebergs in the North Atlantic without a compass. The tragedy of it all is that you’re wasting time and your own money and producing nothing. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 8, 2021, at 8:51 AM, Scott Lopez wrote:

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
OK, I am trying installing flatpak, but it doesn't find chirp anywhere. i used the instructions here: https://flatpak.org/setup/Debian/ Best wishes, David N1EA On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 2:58 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Nigel, > > How do I get rid of this error? > > > W: GPG error: http://ppa.lau

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Nigel, How do I get rid of this error? W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/gpredict-team/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BC6CFD5BAF1773BB If I try gpg --recv-key BC6CFD5BAF1773BB I receive this erro

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
Chirp doesn't now list it because many current Linux distributions have dropped Python 2 in favour of Python 3. Whilst you can install Python 2 yourself there are several dependencies that are not obvious. If you install (and update) Chirp from the FLATPAK version you will get all the required P

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
That helps! This page: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Running_Under_Linux had: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots Which is a different PPA. Maybe the gpredict-team PPA should be given instead? 73 DR On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 13:35 Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF w

Re: [chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF
I just use a root text editor but I'm sure that's not what you're really asking. If the repository isn't signed, add [trusted=yes] as a switch just before the repository name. e.g. deb [trusted=yes] http://ppa.launchpad.net/gpredict-team/ppa/ubuntu bionic main > On 08/09/2021 12:19 D.J.J. Ring, J

[chirp_users] CHIRP under Debian Linux

2021-09-08 Thread D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Unfortunately, CHIRP under Slackware on my wonderful SLINT.fr installation variety is failing to work. I prefer to run Debian because it has many more CLI - Command Line Interface - programs than Ubuntu. Does anyone have a proven method of adding repositories to the /etc/apt/sources.list in Debia

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread Scott Lopez
you do realize that we are end-users like you and not paid technical support that jump at your every request. chirp is an open-source labor-of-love by people who want to contribute their time to the project. as someone who has almost 40 years in IT and two degrees it didn't take me very long to fi

Re: [chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 152, Issue 12

2021-09-08 Thread JOHN E BECK Sr
CHIRP IS NOT fully functional on a MacBook Pro Big Sur 11.5.2. What do I need to do in order to use this product on my MacBook (other than what you outlined below)? Also, in my original e-mail there were three other issues which were not responded to. They are: Issue 2: When attempting to s