New to Linux and Zorin but so far am enjoying the experience. I recently installed 17.2 on a newer laptop and the install went beautifully. I'm now attempting to configure all my programs and tried to install a handheld radio programming software call CHIRP. They have a Linux version and I was following the instructions listed here:
Step 1 to install the distro packages went well
Step 2 to install Chirp and Python dependencies failed
I downloaded the latest CHIRP file for Linux (chirp-20241003-py3-none-any.whl) and was able to run the following command as indicated in Step 2:
pipx install --system-site-packages ./chirp-20241003-py3-none-any.whl
It seems the package failed to build with the following message:
Fatal error from pip prevented installation. Full pip output in file:
/home/user/.local/pipx/logs/cmd_2024-10-11_08.36.37_pip_errors.log
pip seemed to fail to build package:
yattag
Some possibly relevant errors from pip install:
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
TypeError: canonicalize_version() got an unexpected keyword argument 'strip_trailing_zero'
error: metadata-generation-failed
Error installing chirp from spec '/home/user/Downloads/chirp-20241003-py3-none-any.whl'.
Same thing happened on a test desktop (Dell Optiplex 7040) I was using to evaluate Linux on, also running 17.2.
Being new to the Linux world I'm at a bit of a loss of what to do next. Obviously there seems to be an issue generating metadata but I have no idea how to fix that. Hoping the community here can assist me in resolving this one.
Thank you,
Rick