CHIRP

h1. Running CHIRP Under Linux

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CHIRP's preferred platform is Linux. By far the best way to get CHIRP running is to use one of the binary package repositories provided and maintained by volunteers. If you are running an obscure or old distribution, you may need to install it manually from the source tarball.

h2. Ubuntu package via PPA

This is super quick and easy if you're running a reasonably new version of Ubuntu. Simply run the following in a terminal:

  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sconklin/hampackages

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install chirp

For more information, please see "Steve's PPA page":https://launchpad.net/~sconklin/+archive/hampackages

h2. Fedora package via the D-RATS RPM repository

This too is quite easy. First, we install the repository RPM and then CHIRP itself. From a terminal:

  rpm -Uvfh http://d-rats.com/yum/f11/d-rats-repo-0.1.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm

yum install chirp

h2. Manual installation from source

If you are here, you are probably running an old or obscure distribution, or you want to run from source for some other reason (such as testing a daily build). First, grab the source tarball from the [[Download]] page and save it somewhere like your home directory and then unpack it:

  tar xzf chirp-0.1.12.tar.gz

cd chirp-0.1.12

From here, the easiest thing is to just launch CHIRP directly without installing it onto your system. Don't worry, this works just fine and CHIRP will be fully functional. Simply run the following:

  ./chirpw

Once you've tested that it runs on your system, you may want to install it permanently. To do this, run the setup routine by doing:

  sudo python setup.py install

When finished, you should be able to run "chirpw" from anywhere on your system, and (with luck) you'll also have an item in your distribution's applications menu.