Hello All,
There are two ways to run D-Rats 0.4.0 on Linux / Windows
The "setup.py" install method has been deprecated by the python packaging maintainers. It is not going to work for modern python projects, and that includes D-Rats.
The only reason there is a setup.py in the distribution is that the Python packaging maintainers have not documented a replacement for building the kit that contains data files in addition to python files.
The Windows instructions are at .
For Linux, you do not install Msys2 Ming2, but you do need to install the python3 and GTK modules, etc for the Linux distros, the ones for Debian based distributions are listed in the README.md at
LZHUF must be installed from
/g/d-rats/files/D-Rats or from the github.com/ham-radio-software/lzhuf.
Option 1:
Clone the D-Rats repository, and run from it.
For this option, you need to run the ./build_pot.sh script to rebuild the message catalog. This currently will only help italian speaking users, since that is the only translation that we have.
Option 2:
Use pip to install the package from
/g/d-rats/files/D-RatsNow in the past it has been common practice to have PIP install update the system python, and that has sometimes resulted in corrupting the python installed by the operating system.
For a PIP install, you have to either create a virtual environment or you have to specify a "user" library and update the PYTTHONPATH and other environment variables to make it work.
73,
-John
