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Install Chirp on Debian/Ubuntu Linux

johnnyJohnny wrote 02/10/2024 at 00:35 • 1 min read • Like

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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