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Comment by guappa

1 year ago

apt install signal

Error: Unable to find the package signal

$ sudo apt install telegram

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package telegram

Also

$ sudo apt install signal-desktop-beta

[sudo] password for :

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

signal-desktop-beta is already the newest version (7.22.0~beta.1).

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

So, yeah.

  • It's called telegram-desktop -_-'

    > apt install signal-desktop-beta

    Very nice. Too bad it doesn't exist. Making up package names doesn't magically bring them into existence.

    So, yeah.

    • Beta version:

      # 1. Install our official public software signing key wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor > signal-desktop-keyring.gpg cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee -a /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

      # 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' |\ sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list

      # 3. Update your package database and install signal sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop-beta

      https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318471-Si...

      Non-beta version:

      # 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 cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null

      # 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' |\ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list

      # 3. Update your package database and install Signal: sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

      https://signal.org/download/

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