Max Pyziur wrote: > Per the subject line, what's the preferred version of > Signal-Desktop for FC44? I seem to be using one that was > built for FC29. > > It works, but ...
I think many folks prefer the Flatpak install. Outside of that, you can use dpkg on Fedora to install the offical binary packages from Signal. I do that with a few scripts to install and update the package. Feel free to review and use/adapt them. They're attached. -- Todd
#!/bin/bash # Install signal on fedora using apt/dpkg (thanks to Sergio B) # Sources: # https://www.signal.org/download/linux/ # https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/has-anyone-installed-signal-apps-desktop-version-in-fedora/11997/6 expected_fprs=( DBA36B5181D0C816F630E889D980A17457F6FB06 16762A2603D5B6EEA51B0CB378BAECFF0E46390F ) die() { [[ -n $1 ]] && echo "ERROR: $*" >&2 exit 1 } # install debian package tools sudo dnf install apt dpkg keyrings-filesystem # configure dpkg (it tries to run the non-existant `pager` command by default) cat <<'EOF' >~/.profile.d/dpkg.sh # Options for dpkg # DPKG_PAGER="less -FRSXMQ" export DPKG_PAGER EOF source ~/.profile.d/dpkg.sh # add signal keyring and repo tempdir=$(mktemp -t -d signal-keys.XXXXXX) [[ -d $tempdir ]] || die "key temp dir ($tempdir) does not exist" curl --output-dir $tempdir -sSO https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc keys=$tempdir/keys.asc [[ -f $keys ]] || die "key file ($keys) does not exist or is not a file" fprs=( $(gpg --with-colons --fingerprint --show-keys $keys | awk -F: '/^fpr:/ {print $10}') ) if [[ $fprs != $expected_fprs ]]; then die "fingerprint mismatch; exptected='${expected_fprs[@]}' received='${fprs[@]}'" fi keyring_dir=/usr/share/keyrings if ! [[ -d $keyring_dir ]]; then sudo mkdir -p $keyring_dir || die "unable to create $keyring_dir" fi keyring=$keyring_dir/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg gpg --dearmor <$keys | sudo tee -a $keyring >/dev/null url="https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt"; dist="xenial" sources="deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=$keyring] $url $dist main" sources_list="/etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-$dist.list" if ! grep -Fqx "$sources" "$sources_list"; then echo "$sources" | sudo tee -a "$sources_list" >/dev/null fi # download and install signal package shopt -s nullglob pushd /tmp >/dev/null sudo apt update && sudo apt-get download signal-desktop deb=$(echo signal-desktop_*_amd64.deb) if ! [[ -f $deb ]]; then exit 'No updated signal-desktop package found.' fi sudo setenforce 0 sudo dpkg --force-depends -i "$deb" sudo setenforce 1 sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime sudo update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor sudo rm -f "$deb"
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s nullglob
pushd /tmp >/dev/null
sudo apt-get -qq update
if dpkg -l signal-desktop &>/dev/null; then
sudo apt list --upgradable |& grep -q signal-desktop || exit
fi
sudo apt-get download signal-desktop
deb=$(echo signal-desktop_*_amd64.deb)
if ! [[ -f $deb ]]; then
exit 'No updated signal-desktop package found.'
fi
# neuter update-alternatives from postrm; it fails and blocks the upgrade
postrm=/var/lib/dpkg/info/signal-desktop.postrm
sudo sed -E -i.dist~ 's/^if (type update-alt)/if false \&\& \1/' $postrm
sudo setenforce 0
sudo dpkg --force-depends -i "$deb"
sudo setenforce 1
sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/signal-desktop.desktop
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
sudo update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications
sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
sudo rm -f "$deb"
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