Did you read someone else’s post, and decide to get on this bullshit “gatekeeping” bandwagon? You’re a misinformed malcontent. spew you copypasta bullshit elsewhere.
“Granny” has evolved. In 1985 granny at the tender age of 60 was born when 65% of households didn’t have electricity and she came of age when the height of sophistication was the typewriter.
In 2010 granny saw computers become a thing when she was 40 become usable by 55 and pervasive at work by the time she retired.
In 2024 granny saw computers become a thing right when she became an adult. Her kids had them. She used them. By the time she was 46 they were literally everywhere and unavoidable
By 2034 granny saw computers become a thing when she was a kid and they were everywhere by her early adulthood.
This isn’t an argument against GUIs which are in fact useful but lets not pretend everyone is an idiot either. Honestly I don’t find googles GUI for managing android apps even slightly usable as far as finding software either. I always end up searching on an actual search engine, finding the exact app I need and then installing it. Android with its mega millions of users doesn’t have a better ux than apt.
okay Judge Dredd. Because you make the difference to the Linux world. piss off back to whatever OS you were using before you “discovered Linux” 6 months ago.
It’s funny - some of my first Linux experiences was to try out compiz-fusion back when it was new about 20 years ago. Wobbly windows is the key feature that I fell in love with Linux over. Or rather a compositor that provided great control over the desktop experience that made it fun, and people like you were angry back then that nobody needs eye candy. Nowadays, composite graphics are standard in Windows, Mac, Gnome and KDE.
I’m glad that the community overall has grown up, and that most distros focus on being usable by every user, not just power users
Because right now I don’t have the money to replace my NAS that died so for now I have to use streaming service and my kids will watch Netflix on my laptop sometimes and I need it to function and Firefox is always slower for me.
Great, you can accomplish the bare essentials with Linux.
Now how do I install a program called chirp for programming 2 way radios?
Searched for a week and gave up as each set of instructions lead down a broken, redundant dependency rabbit hole with no solution in sight, Flatpack this, snap that, no explanation or even a searchable clue that could begin me a solution.
In windows I just unzip the nightly build to a directory of my choice, run the executable and it works.
Sure… Not everyone knows or needs to know about these edge case applications, but point stands, it works in windows, and everyone encounters an edge case sooner or later.
I’m keen to ditch the Microsoft hole, and I have no issue with making an effort to learn, but I can’t afford to or my life in hold for hours or days at a time in order to accomplish things that already work in seconds.
I think my simple issue here is… I’m not incompetent. I can comfortably navigate a fine system in a shell, can mount and unmount, can tar -xvzf a tarball, can do most things up to writing a shell script from scratch (could cobble something
Investigating further I think I do see your issue. You started out installing software the way you do on Windows: Going out to the vendor’s website and downloading a .exe. I went straight to my distro’s package manager and installed a .deb, which worked fine…even if I got a 4-year old version of the software.
I will notice that on chrip.danplanet.com, it does briefly mention the legacy version can be installed “On Linux, via flatpak” which doesn’t seem to be true at least anymore; neither Mint’s software manager nor flathub.org return any relevant hits for “chirp.”
Let’s see if I can get it installed on my Mint machine by simply copy-pasting the commands listed on this page.
One criticism I can level right now about this tutorial page: Step 1. Install Distro Packages branches, you’re supposed to use the APT command if using Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian etc . or the DNF command if using Fedora and compatible (which would include Red Hat, Nobara etc. Instructions for Arch-based distros are not included, I suppose if you Arch btw you don’t need them. It’s probably in the AUR. Point is this is a branching path, but doesn’t have a 1.1 or 1.2. Next up, under Install CHIRP (and Python dependencies) this also branches, but has a 2.1 and 2.2 notation. My distro, Mint 21.1, is based on Ubuntu 22.04, so I cound in the Ubuntu 22.10 and earlier section, so I’ll run that command.
It returns an error, and on further examination, it’s pretty clear as to why. PIP is Python’s package manager, which can and usually does download packages from a central repository, but in this case the ./ in the command means its looking for a file in this directory. Just above this, in a place that doesn’t look like a step in this process, it’s telling us to download the latest .tar.gz from another page.
So I go to this page and download the chirp-20231223-py3-none-any.whl file, noticing that this is a different file name than the one listed in the tutorial command. Since I used Firefox to download this file, I know that it landed in my ~/Downloads folder. I cd ~/Downloads, then run the pip command, substituting the name of the file I just downloaded.
The next instruction is to run ~/.local/bin/chirp, so it apparently installed it in the .local/bin hidden directory. Running that command launched the program successfully. It prompted me if I wanted to create a desktop icon, which isn’t exactly what this did. What it did was create a .desktop file, which added CHIRP to my application menu…which is what I wanted it to do anyway. But I could have done this manually because it told me what the command to launch the program was.
The documentation isn’t 100% straightforward. The formatting of two different either/or branches are not formatted similarly, and the “download the file” part doesn’t look like a step, it’s mentioned in insufficient detail as part of the description of the next step. There isn’t enough information in this tutorial alone to figure this out, you have to have looked around the site a bit and have some experience doing this to figure it out.
This is also a personal note, but I would prefer that end-user applications not be installed with PIP. If you’re not going to publish to the native package formats like .deb or .rpm, I would prefer you published a Flatpak on Flathub, or if you’re being really lazy an appimage.
I think I’m going to contact the webmaster here with these critiques, to hopefully make it more consistent and clearer.
My first attempt was apt-get install. I’m fairly comfortable with Linux as a server (basic lamp setup) though I make no claims if being an expert.
It’s clearly not in the default repos for Raspian (at least not when I tried), and that could be half my issue, my hardware while popular is not x86 or x86-64.
Huh. I’ve used chirp under Linux before and I just installed it with my package manager. Maybe it wasn’t available on your distro? Then it can get a lot more tricky. The other problem with these things can be permissions… once you have chirp installed maybe you need to add your user to the dial out group in order to be able to use the serial port to flash the radios.
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: snapcraft.io/chirp-snap
Supposing that you’re asking in good faith, the answer appears to be to make a Lemmy post. There is a fair overlap with the HAM and *nix communities, especially the PubNixes. Chirp is fairly well-known so, package manager is likely the way to go.
Don’t know why I could not see this repply until today. It’s been ascertained that chirp is not in the repo for Raspian Linux, so indeed that option never worked.
Dear god, just yesterday I had to wait pretty much an entire day just for ungoogled-chromium to compile, and I have 8 cores with 16GB of ram. I can’t imagine having to do that with just 2GB of ram with 4 cores.
Noob. Back in my day, I needed 7 (seven) days to compile my custom kernel (1.x without RLL and MFM support) and when I booted it, it often panic’d lol.
Chrome is literally the same shit as Chromium but with (more) spyware. Like, there are no other added features. And some people still choose to download Chrome. WHY!?!?!?
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