CHIRP

First off, this issue is resolved, but I wanted to post this in hopes that I would save someone else the time and hassle of trying to figure out what the problem was.

My PC is running Linux Mint 19.3, an Ubuntu based distribution. I am running Chirp daily-20200909, with GTK 2.24.32, PyGTK 2.24.0, and Python 2.7.17.

I recently purchased a Radiooddity GA-510 and ran into the following issue. When I tried to run the "Download from radio" command under the "Radio" menu, the download appeared to be progressing normally until the very end, when the following message appeared on my screen:

"Failed to download from radio: an integer is required"

I searched for days to no avail, but saw something in a post that mentioned the "debug.log" Despite running Linux for many years, I don't tinker much "under the hood", so looking for a log file hadn't occurred to me. When I found the Chirp "debug.log" file, the following two lines finally gave me the answer:

[date/time] chirp.directory - INFO: Registered Radioddity_GA-510 = RadioddityGA510Radio
[date/time] chirp.drivers.ga510 - WARNING: python-future package is not available; chirp.drivers.ga510 requires it

After seeing that, I ran Synaptic Package Manager and checked for the Python-future package. Sure enough, it wasn't installed. I installed it, then retried reading my GA-510 with Chirp. It worked without any issues! Problem solved! (This can also be done via whatever method one is comfortable with to install software)

So, I am posting a "bug" and its solution all in one post. I'm not sure if I am following the posting guidelines properly, so if I am in need of guidance, feel free to offer it. I just wanted to put my problem and solution out there in case anyone else had the same problem. Hopefully this saves someone else the time I spent figuring this out!