Re: Ente Auth install problems
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:51:18PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 04:14:00PM +0000, Michael wrote:
> > Thanks very much for your help and suggestions.
> >
> > I am running Debian 12 on a desktop.
> >
> > My aim is to set up and use a TOTP authenticator app called Ente Auth.
> >
apt search totp
>
> As far as I can see, this is a third party package from
> https://github.com/ente-io/ente/releases?q=tag%3Aauth-v4
>
In other words: Way below the quality standard of Debian
> > I ran, as root :-
> >
> > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
> >
> > to create an executable file enteauth, which runs the Ente Auth app.
> >
>
> Ente Auth appear to have a Github repository - see below for the
> download link.
>
> > The app worked okay for a few days. I then closed everything down to do my
> > monthly Debian update.
> >
> > When I restarted the app I got a window saying an update was available for
> > Ente Auth.
> >
> > So I downloaded the new .deb file and installed it (again using root) :-
> >
> > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.3.1-x86_64.deb
> >
>
> https://github.com/ente-io/ente/releases/download/auth-v4.3.2/ente-auth-v4.3.2-x86_64.deb
>
> Would download the latest. It looks as if they're updating fairly regularly.
> Unfortunately, they haven't gone the extra mile and provided a nice
> repository and a /etc/apt/sources.list.d file/ for an automatic update
> experience.
>
> > This should overwrite the previous executable enteauth.
> >
>
> Without knowing what their package actually does and how good they are
> at sorting out their own files - that *should* but we don't know whether
> it does / whether their package install/removal script cleans up after itself
> properly or at all.
Just visit https://xyproblem.info
> > I started Ente Auth again, but the app still showed the update window. I
> > then found a lot of error messages coming from the Ente Auth app,
> > indicating a bug in the new executable.
> >
> > Unfortunately I did not think to run any Debian package commands to check
> > on the status of the v4.2.8 or v4.3.1 files.
> >
>
> You could try apt-cache show ente-auth*
>
> That's a shame - maybe try to uninstall using your command below or
>
> apt remove ente-auth-v4.2.8 ; apt purge ente-auth-v4.2.8
>
> > My latest thought is to uninstall the v4.2.8 data by running as root :-
> >
> > dpkg --purge ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
> >
> > and then reinstall the v4.2.8 deb file by again running as root :-
> >
> > dpkg -i ente-auth-v4.2.8-x86_64.deb
> >
> > to recreate the executable enteauth for v4.2.8
> >
>
> You could try downloading the up to date 4.3.2 package by using the link
> above.
>
> > So I am seeking help as to whether performing the above purge and reinstall
> > will do what I want to achieve.
>
> It may: it may not. I suspect that the person(s) behind ente-auth may be
> more used to Fedora/Red Hat - a Debian package would be labelled as amd64.deb
>
> Good luck with it all,
Luck will not solve XYproblems.
What I see as solutions for this for this mailinglist, d-user@ldo:
* Original Poster experiments with TOTP software that **is in** Debian.
* `ente-auth` **gets in** Debian.
* Explain that "the original problem" is realy a corner case for this ML
* Pointer to https://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (despite
broken HTTPS certificate)
* Switch to next post
> Andy Cater
> (amacater@debian.org)
Groeten
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