On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 14:27:28 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 11:01:02 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 16:14:00 (+0000), Michael wrote: > > > So I downloaded the new .deb file and installed it (again using root) :- > > > > > > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.3.1-x86_64.deb > > > > I would purge the old package (first backing up any of /your/ > > files involved). I think the package is called enteauth. > > Eeek! If the package name isn't "ente-auth-v4.3.1" then they've > seriously messed around with expectations. Granted, we already saw > that with the "x86_64" instead of "amd64" as the arch. > > At this point, it would be a really good idea to *confirm* the name of > the package. "dpkg -l ente\*" or similar should suffice. > > Once you know the name of the package, then you can decide how to > proceed.
Rather than risk installing the download, I merely did: $ ls -Glg ente-auth-v4.3.2-x86_64.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 16583244 Jan 28 04:56 ente-auth-v4.3.2-x86_64.deb $ md5sum ente-auth-v4.3.2-x86_64.deb 1428236e1468fc9547b2dacb96a2f5cb ente-auth-v4.3.2-x86_64.deb $ ar x ente-auth-v4.3.2-x86_64.deb control.tar.xz $ tar -x -f control.tar.xz -J ./control $ cat control Maintainer: Ente.io Developers <a...@ente.io> Package: enteauth Version: 4.3.2 Section: x11 Priority: optional Architecture: amd64 Essential: no Installed-Size: 36000 Description: ente two-factor authenticator Depends: libsqlite3-0, libsodium23, libsecret-1-0, libappindicator3-1 | libayatana-appindicator3-1, gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 | gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1, libayatana-ido3-0.4-0 $ AFAICT, ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb is no longer downloadable. > * If the package name really is "enteauth" or "ente-auth" without a > version number inside it, then installing the second .deb package > should have replaced the original. I assumed the upgrade process may have worked, just not the resulting binary. OTOH, downgrading it would have required forcing, so that didn't happen. > * If the packge name is "ente-auth-v4.3.1" or similar, with a version > number in it, then you may have *both* versions installed at the > same time, either conflicting with each other, or not. In that case, > the best thing to do at this point would be to purge both, and then > install whichever one you want. Cheers, David. [my posts have been taking 2-3 hours today to be sent anywhere.]
