How to download and install Twilio Authy on a desktop Linux system without snap support

authy-fetch-extract-snap.md

• Make an install directory somewhere convenient and switch to it

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/authy
cd ~/.local/share/authy

• Fetch the current Authy snap

wget $(wget -qO- --header Snap-Device-Series:\ 16 https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/info/authy | grep -io 'https.*/download/[a-z0-9_]*.snap')

☞ Triple-click to select the entire line, above.

• Unpack the snap package

unsquashfs -q -f -d . *.snap

• Remove the undeeded files

rm -r command.sh data-dir desktop-common.sh desktop-gnome-specific.sh desktop-init.sh gnome-platform lib meta/snap.yaml usr *.snap

• Correct the paths in desktop file

sed -i "/^Exec=/s,=,=$PWD/,;s,\${SNAP},$PWD," meta/gui/authy.desktop

• Install the desktop file, so that it is found by the desktop environment

install -Dm755 meta/gui/authy.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/authy.desktop
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

☞ You may need to relogin to your desktop environment before authy shows up.

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To remove just delete ~/.local/share/applications/authy.desktop and the install directory (e.g. ~/.local/share/authy).

This is handy if you decide to leave Authy (or run another TOTP program alongside) and need to export your TOTP seeds (since Authy does not provide such a function):

https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d958c93

Hi, you can run update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications to get authy to show up without a relogin

@adil192 In theory yes but I have not found that to be reliable against all desktop environments that claim to support this. And often, you don't need it anyway.

I have added it to the instructions, nonetheless. Thanks!

Thank-you very much. It stopped working for me in snap, for some unknown reason, but this solution works.

@sswam Glad it worked for you

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This.. just works! Tysm :D

Thank you!

Works great on Fedora 38! Thanks a lot!

Many thanks, just used your instructions to add Authy to my Linux Mint XFCE desktop :-D

It's working fine for Linux distributions without systemd. Thanks a lot!

@alexmbarbosa Glad to here it still works. I stopped using it myself a long time ago. I just wrapped a shell script around mintotp and GPG (for seed storage) and use that these days. Nonetheless yes, not requiring systemd was my motivation to work this out as I am also on a distro without it. I actually use several snaps by ripping them apart like this. 😆

thank you! very easy. I often dreaded opening authy because it was so slow to open. after installing it with this method, it opens very quick now. well done!!

Works on 22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) with KDE desktop environment. Did not need to perform a logout/login operation as the update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications command worked for me. The app displayed in the start menu and worked perfectly.

Thank You @ruario .

@nischal-subedi Glad this is still useful for people 👍

Still works on Fedora 40! The full method doesn't work as the snap package has been removed from the snap store. But, I copied the authy folder which I had installed earlier with this method on another distro and ran just the last step to install the desktop file.

It worked pretty good for me.

For those who don't have it already installed before being removed, it can still be downloaded from Wayback Machine.

Unfortunately it seems not to be latest version available, the 21 from Nov 21, 2023, as trying to install from flatpak it tries to download version 23 which is unavailable in Wayback Machine.

I wonder if is there a way to pack it into an AppImage?

Wayback Machine set up worked. Thanks @y5r43l !

GOATED. Working.

I tried the snap from Wayback Machine. It looks like things have changed, server side.

I get "The device does not meet the minimum integrity requirements" as a response.

At this point. I am not sure if I will be able to export my tokens.