Greetings,
Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop with Fedora 40.
C'era una volta/once upon a time, there was.
But all of the instructions for finding rpms, installation, etc., are either stale or unusable (installation fails; too many depencies that are not findable).
Suggestions?
Thank you,
Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com
Max,
Yes indeed, try the following:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_$(rpm -E %fedora)/network:im:signal.repo
sudo dnf install signal-desktop
# add --nogpgcheck if there is no public key
Works for me: updates are along with other dnf updates.
Note that you will need to uninstall signal-desktop and reinstall upon an upgrade (has been my experience in the last several cycles).
HTH and best wishes, Ranjan
On Wed Jun26'24 05:52:48PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
From: Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT) To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
Greetings,
Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop with Fedora 40.
C'era una volta/once upon a time, there was.
But all of the instructions for finding rpms, installation, etc., are either stale or unusable (installation fails; too many depencies that are not findable).
Suggestions?
Thank you,
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signal is supported on Fedora with a flatpak, which I use.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Max,
Yes indeed, try the following:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_$(rpm -E %fedora)/network:im:signal.repo
sudo dnf install signal-desktop
# add --nogpgcheck if there is no public key
Works for me: updates are along with other dnf updates.
Note that you will need to uninstall signal-desktop and reinstall upon an upgrade (has been my experience in the last several cycles).
HTH and best wishes, Ranjan
On Wed Jun26'24 05:52:48PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
From: Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT) To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
Greetings,
Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop with Fedora 40.
C'era una volta/once upon a time, there was.
But all of the instructions for finding rpms, installation, etc., are
either
stale or unusable (installation fails; too many depencies that are not findable).
Suggestions?
Thank you,
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Neal,
I am aware of the flatpak option, though I have used this alternative repo for the past four years when I started using Signal, and found it to work well. What is the benefit of using flatpak?
Ranjan
On Wed Jun26'24 07:35:14PM, Neal Becker wrote:
From: Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:35:14 -0400 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: Ranjan Maitra mlmaitra@gmx.com Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
signal is supported on Fedora with a flatpak, which I use.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Max,
Yes indeed, try the following:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_$(rpm -E %fedora)/network:im:signal.repo
sudo dnf install signal-desktop
# add --nogpgcheck if there is no public key
Works for me: updates are along with other dnf updates.
Note that you will need to uninstall signal-desktop and reinstall upon an upgrade (has been my experience in the last several cycles).
HTH and best wishes, Ranjan
On Wed Jun26'24 05:52:48PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
From: Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT) To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
Greetings,
Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop with Fedora 40.
C'era una volta/once upon a time, there was.
But all of the instructions for finding rpms, installation, etc., are
either
stale or unusable (installation fails; too many depencies that are not findable).
Suggestions?
Thank you,
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:12 AM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Neal,
I am aware of the flatpak option, though I have used this alternative repo for the past four years when I started using Signal, and found it to work well. What is the benefit of using flatpak?
Ranjan
flatpak is supported for Fedora and is getting regular updates. What other options are there? I saw the suggestion to try and use a suse repo. That sounds like a recipe for trouble to me. Fedora packages are tested together to ensure dependencies are compatible. Between suse and fedora I think you're liable to run into dependency troubles.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:12 AM Ranjan Maitra via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I am aware of the flatpak option, though I have used this alternative repo for the past four years when I started using Signal, and found it to work well. What is the benefit of using flatpak?
flatpak is supported for Fedora and is getting regular updates. What other options are there?
Build from sources, like in the old days. You get complete control of the build process. And you get to carry patches to address gaps in the package you are building.
Building userland apps is much easier than kernel, libc and some gnu-based gear (like you would with Linux from Scratch). Or that's been my experience.
I saw the suggestion to try and use a suse repo. That sounds like a recipe for trouble to me. Fedora packages are tested together to ensure dependencies are compatible. Between suse and fedora I think you're liable to run into dependency troubles.
Jeff
On Thu Jun27'24 11:58:54AM, Neal Becker wrote:
From: Neal Becker ndbecker2@gmail.com Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:58:54 -0400 To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: Ranjan Maitra mlmaitra@gmx.com Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:12 AM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Neal,
I am aware of the flatpak option, though I have used this alternative repo for the past four years when I started using Signal, and found it to work well. What is the benefit of using flatpak?
Ranjan
flatpak is supported for Fedora and is getting regular updates. What other options are there? I saw the suggestion to try and use a suse repo. That sounds like a recipe for trouble to me. Fedora packages are tested together to ensure dependencies are compatible. Between suse and fedora I think you're liable to run into dependency troubles.
Just because the host is download.suse.org does not mean that the package is not built for Fedora. This repo has been around for at least four years and eight Fedora versions, and it has never broken. Also, the discussion on github seemed to indicate care in getting things to work with Fedora. And this package has got regular updates over hundreds of signal versions (which seem to update very frequently).
I do not see a benefit in having another way to install packages in addition to dnf. This repo simplifies things, and has worked for me without fail so far. I am sure others have reasons to prefer flatpak.
At the same time, it would be nice to have signal in the official repo.
Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2024, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
Max,
Yes indeed, try the following:
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_$(rpm -E %fedora)/network:im:signal.repo
sudo dnf install signal-desktop
# add --nogpgcheck if there is no public key
Works for me: updates are along with other dnf updates.
Note that you will need to uninstall signal-desktop and reinstall upon an upgrade (has been my experience in the last several cycles).
HTH and best wishes, Ranjan
Thank you. This appears to have installed easily.
MP
On Wed Jun26'24 05:52:48PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
From: Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT) To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
Greetings,
Is there a way of using Signal-Desktop with Fedora 40.
C'era una volta/once upon a time, there was.
But all of the instructions for finding rpms, installation, etc., are either stale or unusable (installation fails; too many depencies that are not findable).
Suggestions?
Thank you,
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