Signal 8.6.0 and above will NOT be packaged by me anymore:

1. It's a major refactor adding a new build dependency (rolldown) which would need to be packaged separately
2. due to outside life events for about a month i haven't been able to dogfood this package as much as i would like
3. Electron is stuck on 37 which is out of date. I don't know how long new Signal versions will run on old electron, and there's been nobody willing to pick up maintaining it.

Sorry for this short notice.

Andreas Schneider (gladiac) - 3 months ago

maintainer

Thank you very much for your work maintaining Electron and Signal for many years!

i thod (ithod) - 3 months ago

maintainer

Thanks a lot, I completely understand and I have the same problem finding time...

Stefan Seyfried (seife) - 22 days ago

Thank you. It was nice while it lasted but I totally understand your reasons.

palka (richie_pp) - 22 days ago

Thank you for maintaining it all these years. I appreciate the work a lot.

Cornfeed Hobo (cornfeedhobo) - 19 days ago

Thank you for all your hard work over the years.

Since I rely heavily on this package, I need either volunteer to take it over, or else just switch to the Flatpak. I'm evaluating which course makes more sense and will update here with my conclusion.

Daniel Franke (dfranke) - 21 days ago

I decided that using the official AppImage is the best way forward. The official documentation for installing the AppImage is incomplete: it forgets some XDG integration hooks such as making the application icon available. Here's a shell script that should make it seamless: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dfoxfranke/4f5097098be42bf538eec0b63a741e7a/raw/40cb355fd9b40377b5b0dfb5a51a355844119956/install-signal.sh

And if you're here reading this then I assume you already know how to remove the package from this repo, but just in case:

sudo zypper rm -u signal-desktop && sudo zypper rr network:im:signal

Thnx a lot to the previous maintainers for your great work up to now.

I switched to the official AppImage by signal.org. After copying $HOME/.config/Signal to $HOME/.config/Signal AppImage things worked fine again - though the AppImage seems to run somewhat slower than your native rpm ...

Daniel von Asmuth (Dandelion) - 14 days ago

This little trick worked for me. So perhaps this issue is less urgent for me now.

Thank you for maintaining it all these years. I appreciate your work. I'm switching to appimage.