Simple Python script for automating the installation of signal-cli, the DBus service, and registering a new user. It worked well for me and saved me a lot of time for each time I had to reinstall signal-cli on a new machine, but I cannot 100% guarantee that it will work for you.

InstallSignalEN.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#coding: utf-8
#
# Run this file with superuser rights ('sudo') to install the Signal client

raw_input("Welcome to the signal-cli install wizard.\nPress ENTER when you are ready.")

import os


javaInstalled = raw_input("\n\nSignal requires Java  and the Java Cryptography extension.\nFor Java, just do 'sudo apt-get install default-jdk'.\nFor the JCE, download it at  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8-download-2133166.html\nand xopy the files in /usr/lib/jvm/<the Java folder>/lib/security/\nReplace the existing files if needed.\nAre Java and the JCE extension correctly installed? (Yes/No): ")

if javaInstalled in ['Oui', 'Yes', 'O', 'Y', 'oui', 'yes', 'o', 'y']:

	# Ask for Signal number and check if raw_input is matching the required format
	numberOK = False
	while not numberOK:
		number = raw_input("""\nType in the phone number that will be associated to your Signal account.\nThis nimber must be formatted as follows: +CCXXXXXXXXX (CC : Country Code).\ne.g. for France: +33601020304.\nNumber: """)
		numberOK = True
		if number[0] != '+':
			numberOK = False
		else:
			for i in range(1,len(number)):
				if number[i] not in ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4','5', '6', '7', '8', '9']:
					numberOK = False
		if numberOK == False:
			print("\nThis is not a valid number. Please retry.")

	# Ask for Signal version and check if raw_input is matching the required format
	versionOK = False
	while not versionOK:
		version = raw_input("""\nPlease check the latest signal-cli version\non https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases and write it below.\nThe format must be x.y.z. e.g. : 0.6.2\nVersion: """)
		versionOK = True
		if len(version) != 5 or version[1] != '.' or version[3] != '.':
			versionOK = False
		else:
			for i in [0,2,4]:
				if version[i] not in ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4','5', '6', '7', '8', '9']:
					versionOK = False
		if versionOK == False:
			print("\nThis is not a valid number. Please retry.")


	os.system("cd /tmp ; wget https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/download/v" + version + "/signal-cli-" + version + ".tar.gz")
	os.system("tar xf /tmp/signal-cli-" + version + ".tar.gz -C /opt ; ln -sf /opt/signal-cli-" + version + "/bin/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/")
	os.system('apt-get install -y git')
	os.system("cd /tmp ; git clone https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli.git")
	os.system("cd /tmp/signal-cli/data ; cp org.asamk.Signal.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ ; cp org.asamk.Signal.service /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ ; cp signal.service /etc/systemd/system/")
	os.system("""sed -i -e "s|%dir%|/opt/signal-cli-""" + version + """/|" -e "s|%number%|""" + number + """|" /etc/systemd/system/signal.service""")

	os.system("""sed -i -e 's|policy user="signal-cli"|policy user="root"|' /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.asamk.Signal.conf""")
	os.system("""sed -i -e 's|User=signal-cli|User=root|' /etc/systemd/system/signal.service""")
	installMode = raw_input("\nA Signal account might be installed on several devices.\nIn this case, one of them is the master device,\nand the others must be linked via a QR Code before use.\nWill this computer be used as the master device for your Signal account? (Yes/No): ")

	if installMode in ['Oui', 'Yes', 'O', 'Y', 'oui', 'yes', 'o', 'y']:
		sms = raw_input("\nA validation PIN will be sent to the provided phone number.\nIf this phone cannot receive SMS (landline), the PIN will be given by a call.\nCan this phone number receive SMS? (Yes/No): ")
		if sms in ['Oui', 'Yes', 'O', 'Y', 'oui', 'yes', 'o', 'y']:
			os.system("signal-cli --config /var/lib/signal-cli -u " + number + " register")
		else:
			os.system("signal-cli --config /var/lib/signal-cli -u " + number + " register --voice")

		# Ask for verfication code and check if raw_input is matching the required format
		verifOK = False
		while not verifOK:
			verifCode  = raw_input("Enter the 6-digit validation PIN you just received: ")
			verifOK = True
			if len(verifCode) != 6:
				verifOK = False
			else:
				for i in range(6):
					if verifCode[i] not in ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4','5', '6', '7', '8', '9']:
						verifOK = False
			if verifOK == False:
				print("\nThis is not a valid number. Please retry.")

		os.system('signal-cli --config /var/lib/signal-cli -u ' + number + ' verify ' + verifCode)

	else:
		deviceName = raw_input("""\nYou are about to generate a link beginning by tsdevice://...\nCopy it and paste it in a QR Code generator, like https://www.unitag.io.\nBe careful to choose "Text", not "Link" in the generator.\nUse the Signal app on your phone to flash the generated QR code.\nHow do you ant to name your device?: """)
		os.system('''signal-cli --config /var/lib/signal-cli link -n "''' + deviceName + '''"''')

	os.system("apt-get install libunixsocket-java")
	os.system("cp /usr/lib/jni/libunix-java.so /lib") # Because sometimes it says that libunix-java is not in java.library.path
	os.system("systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable signal.service && systemctl reload dbus.service && systemctl start signal.service")

	print("\nInstallation finished.")

	numberOK = False
	while not numberOK:
		number = raw_input("\nIn order to check if the installation completed correctly,\nplease provide a phone number linked to a Signal account (not this one).\nThis number must be formatted as follows: +CCXXXXXXXXX (CC : Country Code).\ne.g. for France: +33601020304.\nNumber: ")
		numberOK = True
		if number[0] != '+':
			numberOK = False
		else:
			for i in range(1,len(number)):
				if number[i] not in ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4','5', '6', '7', '8', '9']:
					numberOK = False
		if numberOK == False:
			print("\nThis is not a valid number. Please retry.")
		else:
			os.system('''signal-cli --dbus-system send -m "Everything works as expected. The signal-cli client installation is finished.\nWell done!" ''' + number)
			received = raw_input("\nA message has just been sent to this number.\nHave you received it? (Yes/No): ")
			if received not in ['Oui', 'Yes', 'O', 'Y', 'oui', 'yes', 'o', 'y']:
				numberOK = False

I wasn't able to enter the version number v0.10.3. because "the format must be x.y.z." What should I be inputting for the version number?

Try it without the v, e.g. 0.10.3

Seems like there is no captcha support on jonowo's fork? Any ways around this?

@luczavestoski I just added captcha support in my fork, but I can't test it since I've never encountered the captcha required error. Please tell me if it works.

See how to obtain a captcha token at https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Registration-with-captcha.

@jonowo Sweet. Everything seemed to work up until the receiving a message from the number registered. I'm getting the error

Dbus client failed: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'm doing this on WSL.

Edit: re-read output and I'm getting systemd error because of WSL. Will troubleshoot on my own.

Apparently I have no idea how signal-cli and DBus works. I switched to signal-cli-rest-api which abstracts away the signal-cli installation and works really nicely for me. If anyone reading this wants to build a signal bot, please consider using signal-cli-rest-api.

@jonowo 💖