I appreciate your help, but please do not run any commands on my behalf.
- If any commands are recommended to be run, please just let me know
what they are and I will run them.
I have run the following command
dpkg -l | grep -i "enteauth" > dpkg_enteauth.txt
and found the contents of the txt file :-
ii enteauth 4.2.8
amd64 ente two-factor authenticator
This indicating the package name is enteauth and is for version 4.2.8
I have another, non Debian, issue with Ente Auth which I need to resolve
with the Ente Auth developers before I can proceed with using the Ente Auth
app.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:16 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.]
>
>
