Hi All.

Firstly good news, the 20240827 version of Chirp previously downloaded, has now installed with pipx without issue.  (happy dance!)


I took the advice bellow, and eventually (after first renaming/moving suspect folders etc "out of the way", and making sure nothing else broke.)

Swamped out any remains of the older Python 3.9.x folders and data hiding in ~/.local

I then removed the remnants of those experiments, again checking nothing else breaks.

I next got "diverted" by other life needs, so it got forgotten about.  The PC earlier today did a big OS (LMDE6) update, lots of lib's and files, and the kernel, after which of course I rebooted as it requested, no issues...


I then noticed and read Jeffrey's mail below, so went and tried the pipx install again.

Firstly, I'd forgotten I had uninstalled pipx earlier, so had to 'sudo apt install pipx' again, that completed, and appeared to be a clean install of pipx 1.1.0

That took "an age", from what I could tell of all the "stuff" flying up the terminal session, it did a prety good job of refreshing a lot of Python3 as well.

(I have the archive of that output if anyone wants to examine it.  A little over 11k of plain text.)

I then did...  (as a user, not using sudo)
*
*

*dave@hp-compaq-sfdt*:*~*$ pipx install --system-site-packages 
~/Downloads/chirp-20240827-py3-none-any.whl
  installed package*chirp*  *20240827*, installed using Python 3.11.2
  These apps are now globally available
    - chirp
    - chirpc
    - experttune
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨
*dave@hp-compaq-sfdt*:*~*$ chirp


And it all seems to work again.

Chirp reports (using help | about) that it is :-
CHIRP next-20240827 on Python 3.11.2 wxPython 4.2.0 gtk3 (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.2.2


MANY Thanks to all who contributed to the investigation.   If it was something I did bad, I'd like to know please, If so, it might also be worth updating the chirp install instructions warning others not to do what I did wrong, if that was the case.  Especially as there are often subtle but significant differences between different flavours of Linux.

All the best etc.

Dave G0WBX.



On 01/09/2024 10:17, [email protected] wrote:
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:10:37 -0500
From: Jeffrey Vian<[email protected]>
Subject: [users] Re: Chirp install on Linux failure, again.
To: CHIRP users list<[email protected]>
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Yeah,
I did not try the 'pipx install --system-site-packages ...` command since I
know that pip on fedora installs packages as a user installed package when
not using sudo or as root.  Those packages are installed under
~/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages which mimics the location of system
packages on fedora.

I will try the pipx command on another VM to test how that works on fedora.

Jeff
KI7GJG


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:55:10 +0100
From: Dave B<[email protected]>
Subject: [users] Re: Chirp install on Linux failure, again.  (Dan
        Smith)
To:[email protected]
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Thanks for the replies.


Well...

After some research.   (And still as yet unable to locate "The Pipx
people".)

(The most informative site I found is at:-
https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/troubleshooting/
But I've not yet found a way to locate, let alone to reach out to the
Pipx crew.)


Anyway, after reading through that page, and also several other similar
sites.

I uninstalled/purged the antique distro version of Chirp.

Then removed/purged python3-venv and python3-pip

That also removed pipx.

System restart, no issues.

I then :-
sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip    Completed with no error.

Pipx still didn't exist, so...

sudo apt install pipx   Also completed with no errors.

pipx list now returns

:*~*$ pipx list
nothing has been installed with pipx 😴


System restart again, no issues.

Then retried...
$ pipx install --system-site-packages
./Downloads/chirp-20240827-py3-none-any.whl

The install still fails in the same way as before.

:-(

Looking at the structure of the .whl file, it "seems" to be a simple
compressed archive of a folder structure that contains the application.

So, how to install that manually, and invoke it correctly?

Or, how to install from sources?

Otherwise, I'm stumped.

73.

Dave G0WBX.


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