- 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).
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?