I am trying to just use Discover to install everything, but I’m already coming across some issues.
I use Ente Auth as my authenticator app, but I noticed the version on Discover is 7 months out of date. This is a huge security issue considering the function this app has.
I found the most up-to-date version on their github. The issue is I’m not sure how to install it. Does Aurora use .db, .rpm? I double clicked both but both give an error.
What can we do in the case that flatpacks don’t work?
I know there’s brew but I don’t understand how it works, I tried typing brew search io.ente.auth and nothing came up.
@Reviver1833 I am using bluefin-dx and am not familiar with Discover.
But in general brew is for CLI apps - just like on macOS. GUI apps are installed via Flatpak.
It looks like ente.io auth can be built from source and there are CLI and app releases available. But the app is delivered via, .deb, .rpm, etc. as you mention.
The CLI can be installed into your ~/.local/bin or /usr/local/bin dirs. Might be a good short term solution while you are learning.
A better option (although may require dealing with some learning curve) would be to create a distrobox - perhaps based on fedora-toolbox - and install what is needed to build it in the distrobox.
Or simply install the released rpm in the distrobox.
Then export the app from the distrobox to make it available on the host.
This is what I do for python 3.14 while it is in alpha. I take this approach for the same reason you mention: I want to be sure I have the latest available changes.
I did find this issue 5264 where v4.3.2 is mentioned so the person must have built it from source. v4.0.3 is what is on flathub.org.
And, indeed, perhaps raising an issue requesting them to publish a newer version to flathub.org would be prudent as well.
@inffy@klmcw Thank you both. I will explore deeper how to do either distrobox or CLI (it’s gonna be a heavy one, I can already tell), but I’m sure it will be worth it in the end.