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I'm unable to install both the precompiled binary and the brew cask versions of CHIRP on macOS 12.4. The issues do not seem to be covered by this similar question composed by a macOS 10.x user.

After getting the binary passed security the app just immediately crashes anytime you attempt to run it. I have an Apple cash report available if that's helpful. For the brew version, it's currently choking on a reference to pygtk which can't be found.

==> Tapping tdsmith/ham
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/tdsmith/homebrew-ham'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 65, done.
remote: Total 65 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 65
Unpacking objects: 100% (65/65), done.
Tapped 3 formulae (79 files, 37.9KB).
Warning: No available formula with the name "pygtk" (dependency of tdsmith/ham/chirp). Did you mean pygitup?
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
This similarly named formula was found:
pygitup
To install it, run:
  brew install pygitup
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.
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    $\begingroup$ This seems like a question better posed to the authors of CHIRP. $\endgroup$
    – David Hoelzer ♦
    Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 3:23
  • $\begingroup$ @DavidHoelzer What, are they too good to use StackExchange? Jk. I noticed that there were a lot of CHIRP questions and it's considered on-topic but yes I will open a GitHub issue or something if we can't get it answered here. $\endgroup$
    – Hack-R
    Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 13:34
  • $\begingroup$ Sure, feel free to ask CHIRP questions... but this really seems to be more of a "I can't get this to install on my system," which isn't really a radio question. It's just my opinion. Folks might be able to help you here, but the project owners seem better positioned. $\endgroup$
    – David Hoelzer ♦
    Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 13:39
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    $\begingroup$ @DavidHoelzer Most likely I will self-answer. It's a dependency issue, probably pygtk isn't ready for newer macOS. I will dig into it after work. $\endgroup$
    – Hack-R
    Commented Sep 14, 2022 at 17:14
  • $\begingroup$ If your Mac is an M1 / Apple Silicon (which is ARM), the package may not be available yet. You may need to build some or all from source. $\endgroup$
    – Joshua Nozzi W4JLN
    Commented Sep 16, 2022 at 1:03

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SOLVED:
You must install the deprecated Python Version 2.7

You can find the installer here: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/python-2.7.18-macosx10.9.pkg

I tested this on an Intel Mac running Monterey 12.4

73's

Eric (N6LG)

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  • $\begingroup$ Good answer, but Python 2 oy vey $\endgroup$
    – Hack-R
    Commented Oct 12, 2022 at 14:35
  • $\begingroup$ @Hack-R, I empathasize withyou and the chirp crew hopefuly will upgrade. That said, Mac end users really need a solution now. I don't know Python well enough to offer a pull request update to their repo. $\endgroup$
    – Eric Rabinowitz
    Commented Oct 13, 2022 at 16:42

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