Revision as of 14:26, 5 September 2022

Install Signal

To check what is going on, install the desktop version of signal.

wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor > signal-desktop-keyring.gpg
cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee -a /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

Install Signal CLI

Install

Check repository by visiting https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/latest. Download the tar.gz.

Install from repository:

sudo mkdir /opt/signal-cli
sudo tar xvfz ~/Downloads/signal-cli-*.tar.gz -C /opt/signal-cli/
sudo mv /opt/signal-cli/signal-cli-*/bin /opt/signal-cli/
sudo mv /opt/signal-cli/signal-cli-*/lib /opt/signal-cli/
sudo rmdir /opt/signal-cli/signal-cli-*

If necessary, update Javascript version:

java --version
apt install openjdk-17-jdk openjdk-17-jre
java --version

Setup and test

/opt/signal-cli/bin/signal-cli -u +41787082768 register