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).

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.