Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:01:07AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> So I downloaded the current version of the program. This gets incremental
> upgrades all the time, and the latest one is chirp20220103, which I
> downloaded. When I went to invoke it directly, there was an error about
> some missing python bit. Going into synaptic, I didn't see chirp listed at
> all, though it did show up when I did a search, and installing that package
> got me a version from 2018! (Why the repository can't be more up to date
> than that I don't know.) This also provided the missing python bit. So I
> edited the application menu entry to point to the new version, and it now
> works.
It would help if you would be more specific. Give us the actual names
of things, and the actual version numbers.
For example:
unicorn:~$ apt-cache search --names-only chirp
chirp - Configuration tool for amateur radios
unicorn:~$ apt-cache show chirp | head
Package: chirp
Version: 1:20200227+py3+20200213-3
Installed-Size: 4206
Maintainer: Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-hams@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: python3-future, python3-serial, python3-six, python3-wxgtk4.0, python3:any
Description-en: Configuration tool for amateur radios
CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your amateur radio. It
supports a large number of manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way
to interface with multiple data sources and formats.
Going by the version number, that looks like it's from 2020. Are you
not running the current stable release of Debian?
As far as running your chirp20220103 version, seeing the errors might be
helpful. I'm not a python expert myself, but I'd be willing to bet that
someone on this list would be able to advise you if we could see the
actual error message.
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