Chirp (stylized as CHIRP) …

is a free and 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.

First I tried to install from source, but soon found out, that this was not feasible1, so I installed flatpack with sudo apt install flatpak.

Next I tried to install the package with sudo flatpak install chirp-daily-*.flatpak which failed with following message:

error: The application com.danplanet.chirp/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 which was not found

After more researching I found another page2, that showed me how to install CHIRP using

sudo apt install flatpak
sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install chirp-daily-[yyyymmdd].flatpak

To run, simply type flatpak run com.danplanet.chirp.

For the future I hope chirp will be rewrote for python3.

Footnotes:

  1. https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/9742 ↩

  2. boondockplan ↩