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Tony Fuller, 03/03/2022 05:40 PM

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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.
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h2. Ubuntu package via PPA
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This is super quick and easy if you're running a reasonably new version of Ubuntu. Simply run the following in a terminal:
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  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/python2-stuff  # Older installations of Ubuntu do not need this (20.04 and earlier)
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install chirp-daily
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Look for CHIRP under your distribution's applications menu.
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h2. Fedora package via the D-RATS RPM repository
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This too is quite easy. First, we install the repository RPM and then CHIRP itself. From a terminal:
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  rpm -Uvfh http://d-rats.com/yum/f11/d-rats-repo-0.1.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
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yum install chirp
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Look for CHIRP under your distribution's applications menu.
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h2. Installing the flatpak (Ubuntu/Debian example)
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First you will need the flatpak package from your distrubtion
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  sudo apt install flatpak
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sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
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Next download the latest flatpak bundle from https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_daily/LATEST/
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It will probably be saved in your Downloads directory so
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  cd ~/Downloads
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sudo flatpak install chirp-daily-*.flatpak
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You may need to log in and log out to see chirp in your distribution's applications menu.
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If you can't wait to start chirp run
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  flatpak run com.danplanet.chirp
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h2. Manual installation from source
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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). Before you start, make sure that the required python modules are installed on your system. Some suggestions on how to do this are:
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* Ubuntu/Debian: @apt-get install python-gtk python-serial python-libxml2@
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* Fedora/RedHat: @yum install pyserial pygtk2 libxml2-python@
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Next, grab the source tarball from the [[Download]] page and save it somewhere like your home directory and then unpack it:
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  tar xzf chirp-0.1.12.tar.gz
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cd chirp-0.1.12
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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:
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  ./chirpw
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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:
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  sudo python setup.py install
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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.
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h2. serial port permissions
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Note that you may need to adjust permissions on the /dev/tty(something) device, or add your users who want to use Chirp to the "dialout" group in order to let non-privileged users access the serial device.
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This issue is often indicated by an "access denied" error when accessing serial port.
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On most Linux distros this is accomplished with:
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<pre>
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sudo addgroup "$USERNAME" dialout
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</pre>
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You will then need to log out and back in for it to take effect.