On Thu 13 May 2021 at 16:42:09 (+0100), Richmond wrote: > David Wright <[email protected]> writes: > > > I'm surprised it doesn't do a quick upgrade while it's about it. > > Anyway, that's what I call self-inflicted. > > Those aren't the instructions given on the Signal website.
As you prefer. I typed signal debian into google and clicked on the top link: https://signal.org › download which took me to https://signal.org/en/download/ I clicked on the blue Download for Linux button, and the following appeared: Linux (Debian-based) Install Instructions # NOTE: These instructions only work for 64 bit Debian-based # Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint etc. # 1. Install our official public software signing key wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor > signal-desktop-keyring.gpg suXdo mv signal-desktop-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ # 2. Add our repository to your list of repositories echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main' |\ suXdo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list # 3. Update your package database and install signal suXdo apt update && suXdo apt install signal-desktop Comparing this with what I posted before, I see that curl (Optional) is replaced by wget (Standard), and one can assume the latter is already installed. Step 1 differs in that it stores the .gpg key instead of .asc. I'm not aware of any significance in one format or the other. Step 2 differs in that a specific key is used for verification, rather than any key on the keyring. Step 3 is identical. Comments as before. Cheers, David.
