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. >
As far as I can see, this is a third party package from https://github.com/ente-io/ente/releases?q=tag%3Aauth-v4 > 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. > 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, Andy Cater (amaca...@debian.org)
