Signal Messenger and the Reform Laptop

2disbetter · January 25, 2022, 11:51am

Thanks to Lukas’ help on the IRC channel I was made aware of this Mobian build for the Signal Desktop client. It works very well on the Reform.

https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=signaldesktop

and if you would like to compile it yourself:

github.com

BernardoGiordano/signal-desktop-pi4/blob/master/install.sh

set -e

echo "installing apt dependencies..."
sudo apt-get install -y curl git git-lfs make build-essential python3 python-is-python3 libssl-dev libcrypto++-dev libcrypto++8 libgtk-3-dev libvips42 libxss-dev

echo "installing nvm..."
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.38.0/install.sh | bash

echo "installing nvm 14.16.0..."
nvm install 14.16.0
nvm use 14.16.0

echo "installing rustup..."
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

echo "downloading Signal v5.17.0 source code..."
wget https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/archive/v5.17.0.tar.gz

echo "cloning libraries..."
git clone https://github.com/signalapp/signal-zkgroup-node.git zkgroup

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Hope that helps!

flowy · January 26, 2022, 12:49pm

Out of desperation, I will definitely be trying this myself, so thanks!

Until now my preferred solution has been running a signal-matrix bridge, but it’s really not ideal.

I hope in the future running Signal on arm can somehow become more sustainable.