App missing "CONFIGURE" file after decompressed tar.gz to install

[RLPnKY]

I downloaded the most recent version of the CHIRP application, which was in compressed tar.gz format. After extracting and changing to that folder, I did not find the typical 'Configure' file in preparation for the 'Make' command. The README file contained no pertinent information:

(# CHIRP Project

This is the official git repository for the
CHIRP project.

When submitting PRs, please see this file
for rules and guidelines.)

What am I missing here?

Thank you in advance .....

[Storm]

You need to run setup.py via the terminal to execute the compiling. There's different ways to set up the compiling of source codes.

[Aravisian]

I do not know much about CHIRP and without looking into this a great deal... my firs tsuggestion is that as I understand it, they do not release with a configure script because they expect a python install

sudo python3 setup.py install

Rather than

./configure

make

Make sure you have your dependencies, first for most any python install:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-serial python3-tk

[RLPnKY]

Thanks. setup.py is an "unknown command"

[Aravisian]

@RLPnKY

Thanks. setup.py is an "unknown command"

It is not a standalone terminal command, but instead must be run using python, specifying the python version.

@Aravisian

sudo python3 setup.py install

In this command, you are specifying for python3 to perform the action.

[RLPnKY]

Thank you. Unfortunately, that still did not work. I gave up and bought a small used Windows 11 laptop specifically for programming my radios with CHIRP. After setting up the Win11 computer, I was able to finish programming the radio in about 15 minutes. Some things actually do work better under Windows 11.