CHIRP

I can see a spelling difference in the PPA snapshot screen

FOCUL is the name given to the new Ubuntu release
FOCAL is the name used on the page at : https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archive/ubuntu/chirp-snapshots

I think I can see the obvious solution to this, but thinking I may try mint first

"Focal" is correctly spelled and it is indeed the name of the Ubuntu 20.04 release.

oh1hqz@oh1hqz:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

The real problem is, that Ubuntu 20.04 switched to Python3 and some Python2 related packages, like python-serial, are not available on it.

Chirp should be ported to use Python3 natively and all references to Python2 libraries should be removed.

Does anyone have a workaround for this?
Just got my first HT and was really hoping to get this set up on my PC running Ubuntu 20.04...

Would installing Python2 and using the method described here to set up switching between Python2 and Python3 work? Or is there a better solution on the horizon? I don’t want to go mucking around with my Python installation if there’s a Py3 version of Chirp right around the corner... thanks in advance!

https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-20-04-python-version-switch-manager

The current Ubuntu release has no longer the necessary python2 packages in their repository.
You could try to get install the whole python2 library tree.

Alternatives:

• build a container with an older ubuntu system that has python2 and map the UI and serial port.. (ugly)
• update CHIRP for Python3 (major undertaking, but I am willing to help)

There is plan to update Py3 for FOCAL