Installing CHIRP inside a virtualenv with uv

CHIRP is an awesome tool for programming radios, but it's nice to be on the latest version. I like to install everything in a virtualenv so it doesn't mess with system packages, but the CHIRP instructions don't cover that.

New versions are constantly released, and you want to go to the download site, and go into the latest dir, and copy the link to the wheel file.

What I did was:

$ mkdir chirp
$ cd chirp
$ uv init
$ curl -LO $chirp_wheel
$ uv add wxpython
$ uv pip install chirp@$chirp_wheel
$ chirp

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