Make sure you have python3-virtualenv, libcairo-dev and libgtk-3-dev or newer installed.
Grab the latest chirp python wheel from: https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_next/
On the day this page was written the latest release was next-20240208.
mkdir chirp && cd "$_" wget https://trac.chirp.danplanet.com/chirp_next/next-20240208/chirp-20240208-py3-none-any.whl # create virtual environment for python3.11, you can change this for whatever python3 you would like to use python3 -m virtualenv --python=python3.11 .pyenv .pyenv/bin/pip install chirp-20240208-py3-none-any.whl # wxPython is required for GUI, but if you want # to use chirpc (cli version) you don't need it. .pyenv/bin/pip install wxPython # create symbolic links ln -s .pyenv/bin/chirp ln -s .pyenv/bin/chirpc # run chirp ./chirp
Enjoy!
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