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

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

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ruario commented Dec 1, 2022 •
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@sswam Glad it worked for you

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Dziękuję, pomogłeś mi bardzo
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thegu5 commented Feb 28, 2023

This.. just works! Tysm :D

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cheiff commented May 19, 2023

Thank you!

@aadish151
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Works great on Fedora 38! Thanks a lot!

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

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

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ruario commented Nov 5, 2023

@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. 😆

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tkvance commented Nov 18, 2023

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!!

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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 .

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ruario commented Dec 14, 2023

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

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