Re: Installing a debian file

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 <deblis@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 <auth@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.]