| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/signal-desktop-beta-bin.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | signal-desktop-beta-bin |
| Description: | Private messaging from your desktop |
| Upstream URL: | https://signal.org |
| Keywords: | beta openwhispher signal |
| Licenses: | GPL3 |
| Provides: | signal-desktop-beta |
| Submitter: | captn3m0 |
| Maintainer: | captn3m0 (Edu4rdSHL) |
| Last Packager: | Edu4rdSHL |
| Votes: | 42 |
| Popularity: | 0.74 |
| First Submitted: | 2018-02-12 06:53 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-12-12 17:09 (UTC) |
@captn3m0 Thanks for writing this as it's worked quite well for me in the past. It looks like signal released a new version of the desktop client last night and deleted the old one so this doesn't work anymore. I think the PKGBUILD file needs the following added:
pkgver=1.31.0beta.2
source=("<https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/pool/main/s/signal-desktop-beta/signal-desktop-beta_1.31.0-beta.2_amd64.deb>")
sha256sums=('8f70aa5b3644a6e75273bf075113d55b4cfa8cd4f1f010a45928f4f5976b1d29')
Verified that there are no conflicts between signal-desktop and signal-desktop-beta, and now this package provides signal-desktop-beta instead.
I think this should either not provide signal-desktop (perhaps provide e.g. signal-desktop-beta), or be set up in a different way so that it doesn't conflict with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-desktop-bin. The reason is that production and beta versions do not conflict and use different data locations (see https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/#install-the-beta).
if any of you are in need of the package, just go to https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases and check for the current release and the modify this PKGBUILD to use the current version and skip the integrity check.
I think it would be a good idea if this package would have a provides and conflicts with signal-desktop-bin in the PKGBUILD.
The deb file gives a 404 error.
Use this PKGBUILD for latest beta (September 7):
pkgname=signal-desktop-beta-bin pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Private messaging from your desktop" arch=('x86_64') url="https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop#readme" license=('GPL3') depends=('gconf' 'gtk2' 'libnotify' 'libxtst' 'nss' 'xdg-utils' 'libxss') options=('!strip' '!emptydirs') install=${pkgname}.install pkgver=1.16.1beta.1 source=("https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/pool/main/s/signal-desktop-beta/signal-desktop-beta_1.16.1-beta.1_amd64.deb") sha256sums=('b9b66198cddfe0fe672a72f377d6bc83e577b0c340f34bd286fd979a6e476933')
package(){ # Extract package data tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}" }
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