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!!