Trying to install chirp from source

Question

Posted by: n0wje

running into issues with python. new to solus

Answer 1

chirp require pyserial to be installed.

First install pip from software center. Once pip is installed, you can install pyserial using following command

sudo pip install pyserial

Now download latest version of Chirp and extract the .tar.gz file. Navigate to the extracted folder in terminal and give following command to run it without installation

./chirpw

To install, use the following command

sudo python setup.py install

Chirp running in my system :

Answer 2

posted by: n0wje

Thank you  for the help, here is what happened running command ./chripw

anthony@mobilebox ~/Downloads/chirp $ ./chirpw
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./chirpw”, line 128, in <module>
from chirp.ui import mainapp
File “/home/anthony/Downloads/chirp/chirp/ui/mainapp.py”, line 26, in <module>
import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk