I’m downloading Signal from the website, even tho they don’t seem to want you to, because I’d like to be able to completely rid myself of the Google Play Store (as used with Aurora which has its own problems from time to time), and I believe that this version auto-updates or at least tells you when there is one. Following the instructions here using the apksigner in the repository just gives me lots of error messages. I’m using Linux Mint 21.1 (and just because I’m using Linux doesn’t mean that I know what I’m doing). I think I read somewhere that the apksigner in the repos is (of course) broken and I may need a newer version but I don’t know where to get it. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

  •  hschen   ( @hschen@sopuli.xyz ) English
    4•1 year ago

    I think i verified it via Termux on android, cant remember the exact commands but try that.

    EDIT: Ok i remembered how i did it, open the signal apk with a zipping utility and extract the META-INF/CERTIFIC.RSA

    then run this

    keytool -printcert -file CERTIFIC.RSA

    and match it to the websites signature

    did it from archlinux this time and it worked as well