After getting some excellent help from Jim and others, I was successful in getting Chirp New to work on my Linux Mint ver 21.2 laptop. Thank you all SO much for the help. It was not as hard as I originally thought, once I was put on the right track to understand what I was doing wrong. And got the commands right. As well as downloading the correct file. 73, Richard AG5M
On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 05:32:45 PM PDT, Richard AG5M via groups.io <ag5m@...> wrote:
I'm having problems making Chirp work on Linux Mint ver 21.1.? I read the following:There is now a known solution, which was provided to me via email.
Hi Bruce.
Don't know if you have solved it but I've had the same problem you had with CHIRP. I have Ubuntu too and trying to find a solution I founded your report.
The problem appeared when I upgraded certain system files so I found this problem:
When upgrading the python files, the module collections give you the ABC method Callable.
The chirp file pyPEG.py call this method as "collections.Callable" three times.
You can found the file under: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/
I've try this solution and works fine for me:
duplicate the file pyPEG.py and save the copy with another name (only for backup, I use to do so)
edit pyPEG.py with root permission (sudo...)
substitute the three calls "collections.Callable" with "collections.abc.Callable", so the line remains like isinstance(pattern, collections.abc.Callable):
I try to edit the file as noted, but am unable to save it.? How do I get permission to save the file?
I also read:
Dan accepts pull requests on github.com and also via mailing list (I can't get emails from the mailing list since outlook.com appears to be silently blocking them so I go through github.com).
I go there, but do not understand what to do with it.? As you can tell, I'm not an experienced Linux person in these matters.? Can anyone help me with getting Chirp to work on this Linux Mint laptop?? Or if it going to be SO complicated, I'll just stick with my Windows machine and call it good.? But would really like to understand this and get it to work on Linux.
Thank you so much, 73 Richard AG5M
Richard AG5M