Signal-Desktop for Fedora

[sallyahaj]

Hello there!
I have searching a way to install the app on my Fedora system, once I saw 'Linux' on the download page, I thought that I'd reached my point, but unfortunately, there, only a package for debian.
In copr repositories, it's available, but the last version is in failed status, and as we know, in copr, the maintainer is only one person, then I checked flatpak hub, I saw the app with the latest version, I've installed it, but it was with almost 300 MB of data, which means a lot for a single application.
My question is that, is there any plan to add rpm repo/package to the official download section?
Thank you so much.

[josh-signal]

@jalalsfs as you've noticed Signal is officially available for debian distros: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360008216551-Installing-Signal I'm going to mark this as a feature request, however I believe the best place for this sort of feedback/requests is the community forum: https://community.signalusers.org/

[x80486]

Alternatively, there is a Flatpak for Signal, unless you are looking specifically for an RPM.

[chiraag-nataraj]

I've installed it, but it was with almost 300 MB of data, which means a lot for a single application.

FWIW, that's going to be true in general (it's actually ~371MB uncompressed on my Debian system) because it's an electron-based program, so it includes a full Chromium runtime along with assets and whatnot.

[maitra]

There is a copr repo for fedora, see here: https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/install-signal-privacy-messenger-linux/
But, yes, would be nice to have this in the official repo.

[cmdrogogov]

+1 for this feature request.

Right now anyone using an RPM-based distribution can't even test the beta because there is no way to install it.

[charafau]

I think the best solution for this would be official flatpak on flathub - uploaded from github action on tag release

[x80486]

The "unofficial" Flatpak is updated as soon as a release is made. Now it would be great if Signal takes ownership of the Flatpak; I don't see a reason to not do it since it's been working now for years without (almost) any issues.

[hasufell]

I don't think flatpak is a solution for security aware users, see https://www.flatkill.org/2020/

[x80486]

Behind the Flatpak technology are a series of well-known companies and quite smart developers. Almost, if not the entire development/process is open-source (I hope you know what that means), and still, some paraflopi-who-knows-who writes a 1000 lines article and you folks try to put it aside because of that? :roll_eyes:

Now, Flatpak still have issues, like any other technology. I'm sure they are going to be fixed...and yes, not every single Flatpak application is hardened or implement every single requirement to make it work ideally, but the same would happen for that particular application installed from .deb, .rpm (you name it). On the other hand, there are TONS of applications released as Flatpaks that takes fully advantage of the technology.

[hasufell]

@x80486 I've been a linux distro developer for a decade, including gentoo maintenance for 5 years (the main repo). I'm very well aware what it takes to do proper packaging. Unless flatpak shows how they enforce quality (policies, QA, testers) and react to vulnerability reports (processes, workflow, tooling, communicating issues to users)... they are to be avoided.

[D4-Developer]

+1 for this feature request.

official-repo

Fedora #rpm

[mohitpalsingh]

+1 for this feature

[blalyasar]

+1 for this feature..

[shoeper]

Looks like this is a duplicate of https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1630

[EvanHahn-Signal]

I'm going to close this as it's a duplicate of #1630. Know that we hear this feature request and recommend installing community-maintained builds for now, but we'll keep an eye on supporting other Linux distributions officially.

[blalyasar]

For fedora desktop with dnf packed manager . https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/luminoso/Signal-Desktop/