On Thu 13 May 2021 at 06:59:04 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:48:37AM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > > > sudo aptitude -v show signal-desktop|grep -i archive > > > Archive: xenial, now > > > Archive: xenial > > > Archive: xenial > > > Archive: xenial > > > Archive: xenial > > > > If you have installed these as .deb packages *and* the sources.list file > > was installed thereby then you should find it with the dpkg -S command > > I proposed in a previous mail. > > Not if the sources.list.d/*.list entry was created by a postinst script. > dpkg -S only shows you files that are included in the package's tarball, > not files that are generated at installation time.
Seeing "xenial" above, I typed ubuntu signal package into google and clicked on the second link: https://websiteforstudents.com/how-to-install-signal-desktop-on-ubuntu-16-04-17-10-18-04/ Here's the script it recommends you run. I notice that it pipes the output of curl straight into sudo'd commands without a care in the world: suXdo apt install curl curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | suXdo apt-key add - echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | suXdo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list suXdo apt update && suXdo apt install signal-desktop I'm surprised it doesn't do a quick upgrade while it's about it. Anyway, that's what I call self-inflicted. Cheers, David.
