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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No software is guaranteed to run on all platforms: the developers choose to make it available or not.

I did some quick googling, and it seems fairly easy to install it:

Use Ubuntu (if you're not familiar with, and don't want to be familiar with terminal basics), and install chirp from the Ubuntu App store. Snap is just a name of their package format, and their app store links to snap craft.

If you're not using Ubuntu, that's your choice, you'll either have to install snap, then do the same, but it's more work. Or play with the terminal just a bit to follow their instructions.

Details

If you're on Ubuntu or have snap installed - it's a one click operation to install chirp: https://snapcraft.io/chirp-snap

If you're on another distribution by choice: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

this page has a 3 step install for mainstream Linux distributions:

  1. Install dependencies (they've listed the commands)
  2. Install chirp and Python dependencies (commands provided)
  3. Run chirp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm no bash wizard, but I grew up with computers through the 80's and am comfortable with using a cli, doesn't bother me at all.

My OP got messed up with the Lemmy app I'm using and thus a large chunk went missing.

I'm actually using Raspian on a raspberry pi, and I don't think there is a binary for armhf available through the more typical means.

For everything else I just apt-get install xxx.

I'll revisit later.

I appreciate the effort in your post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Given how Python-centric the manual install process is, I don't think CHIRP is distributed as a compiled binary, I think it's a Python application.