chirp not open -- SOLVED

[offir]

i installed chirp on linux mint 19
and it not open
i click the icon and nothing

i dont know what the command to open the program from terminal
so i dont have any error message


how can i fix this ?

[Hoser Rob]

Have you tried typing 'chirp' into the terminal? That'd be a good guess ...

[offir]

yes i try that and that is what i get

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Command 'chirp' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install coop-computing-tools

[offir]

any body know how to fix this ?

[offir]

here is a link to a post from Last month
If it helps somehow Solve this problem
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=278014&start=20#p1529999
Another problem I had (Not related to chirp)
But there chirp appears as a file manager

[JerryF]

yes i try that and that is what i get

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Command 'chirp' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install coop-computing-tools

Did you run sudo apt install coop-computing-tools in Terminal as the message said?

[smurphos]

This chirp? https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/ch ... nder_Linux

If so maybe the hint at the bottom of the page is relevant

[offir]

yes i try that and that is what i get

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Command 'chirp' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install coop-computing-tools

Did you run sudo apt install coop-computing-tools in Terminal as the message said?

no i did not
I do not know what it is
All the previous times I installed the software it did not appear
what "coop-computing-tools" do ?
can i remove them if not needed ?

This chirp? https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/ch ... nder_Linux

If so maybe the hint at the bottom of the page is relevant

yes. this is the software in question
This is another problem
But I know that and know how to fix it

[smurphos]

chirpw in the terminal to try and launch it from there and see what if any error messages pop up.

Did you install from this PPA - https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archiv ... -snapshots

Bearing in mid its a daily snapshot PPA I guess there's no guarantee that a current build is buggy or not.

I was about to point you to their bugtracker - but I think you already know about it - https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/6175 -

Ignore the coop-computing-tools stuff - that's a different chirp.

[offir]

chirpw in the terminal to try and launch it from there and see what if any error messages pop up.

Did you install from this PPA - https://launchpad.net/~dansmith/+archiv ... -snapshots

Bearing in mid its a daily snapshot PPA I guess there's no guarantee that a current build is buggy or not.

I was about to point you to their bugtracker - but I think you already know about it - https://chirp.danplanet.com/issues/6175 -

Ignore the coop-computing-tools stuff - that's a different chirp.

i try chirpw
that what i got

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/chirpw", line 60, in <module>
    lc, encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 545, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 477, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: en_IL

The first installation I installed from a software center
When it did not work I removed the software
And reinstalled from the terminal so this is the PPA i use

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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dansmith/chirp-snapshots

I installed the software in this way many times
I've never had this problem

[smurphos]

Try this

sudo locale-gen en_IL en_IL.UTF-8 && sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

You might need to reboot before trying chirp again.

[offir]

Try this

sudo locale-gen en_IL en_IL.UTF-8 && sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

You might need to reboot before trying chirp again.

same result

[Pierre]

another issue, can occur if you are using an Prolific USB to Serial Port converter,
as most of those have the cheaper chipset that will often not work correctly,
& you will need to be careful of which version that you are obtaining.

thus the CHIRP program cannot see that USB converter.

[offir]

another issue, can occur if you are using an Prolific USB to Serial Port converter,
as most of those have the cheaper chipset that will often not work correctly,
& you will need to be careful of which version that you are obtaining.

thus the CHIRP program cannot see that USB converter.

I also know this problem
But that is not the case
Here the software is not turned on at all

And that's a cable I've used many times on Ubuntu without any problems

I first need to solve the problem that the program is not running (turn on)

[smurphos]

Can you try setting your system language to another English version to see if that helps?

[offir]

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling languages and it did not help

This is all that appears in the language settings
Maybe something should be removed?

I installed the software on Linux Mint previously several times
And it always worked without problems
Or without special settings such as USB

strange

[smurphos]

Can you post back the output of locale

[offir]

output of locale

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LANG=en_IL
LANGUAGE=en_IL:en
LC_CTYPE="en_IL"
LC_NUMERIC="en_IL"
LC_TIME="en_IL"
LC_COLLATE="en_IL"
LC_MONETARY="en_IL"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IL"
LC_PAPER="en_IL"
LC_NAME="en_IL"
LC_ADDRESS="en_IL"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_IL"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IL"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IL"
LC_ALL=

[smurphos]

Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales again.

Navigate to and check en_IL UTF-8 using the arrow keys and space bar. Tab to OK and press enter. On the next screen select en_IL UTF-8 and tab to OK and press enter. It should go back to the terminal and tell you it's configuring en_IL UTF-8

Once that's done test the output of locale again. It should hopefully all say en_IL UTF-8. You might need to log in and out. Test chirpw....fingers crossed...i'm suggesting this by semi-educated guesswork...

[offir]

It works
Thanks

What did this command do?