On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:01:07AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So I downloaded the current version of the program. This gets incremental > upgrades all the time, and the latest one is chirp20220103, which I > downloaded. When I went to invoke it directly, there was an error about > some missing python bit. Going into synaptic, I didn't see chirp listed at > all, though it did show up when I did a search, and installing that package > got me a version from 2018! (Why the repository can't be more up to date > than that I don't know.) This also provided the missing python bit. So I > edited the application menu entry to point to the new version, and it now > works.
It would help if you would be more specific. Give us the actual names of things, and the actual version numbers. For example: unicorn:~$ apt-cache search --names-only chirp chirp - Configuration tool for amateur radios unicorn:~$ apt-cache show chirp | head Package: chirp Version: 1:20200227+py3+20200213-3 Installed-Size: 4206 Maintainer: Debian Hamradio Maintainers <debian-h...@lists.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: python3-future, python3-serial, python3-six, python3-wxgtk4.0, python3:any Description-en: Configuration tool for amateur radios CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your amateur radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models, as well as provides a way to interface with multiple data sources and formats. Going by the version number, that looks like it's from 2020. Are you not running the current stable release of Debian? As far as running your chirp20220103 version, seeing the errors might be helpful. I'm not a python expert myself, but I'd be willing to bet that someone on this list would be able to advise you if we could see the actual error message.
