Now that you’ve finally set up Authy without using Snap services, you can enjoy the benefits of two-factor authentication for your online accounts. If the “Authy” icon is not appearing for you, please log in again.
$ update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
#Authy desktop setup install
$ install -Dm755 meta/gui/sktop ~/.local/share/applications/sktop Now run the last final command to move meta/gui/sktop to ~/.local/share/applications/sktop so it can be launched from the “Activities” or “Application” menu.
$ rm -r command.sh data-dir desktop-common.sh desktop-gnome-specific.sh desktop-init.sh gnome-platform lib meta/snap.yaml usr *.snap Once the extraction is complete, let’s verify the file by running the ls command.Īccording to the instructions, let’s run a few more commands, such as removing unnecessary files and fixing the paths in the “meta/gui/sktop” file. Next steps is to extract the snap package using the unsquashfs command, which will basically extract the contents of the snap package to the current directory. $ wget $(wget -qO-header Snap-Device-Series:\ 16 | grep -io 'https.*/download/*.snap') Once you’re done with the above steps, let’s download the latest version of Authy from the below command, which I have found from this link thanks to ruario. If you are ready, then open your system terminal and create a path where you want to store the necessary files for “Authy” on your Linux computer. We will grab the Snap based Authy package, then extract the file, and setup Authy to show up in the application list. Installation of Authy without using SnapĬurrently, Authy can only be installed using the Snap, so you don’t have the official way to get Authy installed on your desktop, but there is a workaround to install Authy on your Linux machine by following the steps that I’ll show you in this article.īefore getting started, let me direct you to what we are going to do first. $ sudo snap install authy Output:Īfter installation is complete, you can search for “Authy” in Activites windows and setup your account to get TOTP directly on your Linux machine, so from now onward you don’t need a mobile device to generate TOTP codes for two-factor authentication. Once you have restarted your system, open up your system terminal using the assigned shortcut ( Ctrl +Alt + T) and copy & paste the below code to install the Authy.
#Authy desktop setup update
One should always update their system repository before installing any new package, which will help you to get the latest version of applications.įor other Linux flavours you can follow this guide to install Snap store on Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro, CentOS, Fedora.īefore going further, it is best to restart your system to ensure snap paths are updated correctly at their corresponding locations.
#Authy desktop setup upgrade
After that, we can install Authy from the Snap store to protect our accounts with two-factor authentication.Ī Ubuntu user can skip this because Snap is preinstalled, but for distributions like Debian, you need to run the following command: $ sudo apt update & apt upgrade -yĪnd if you don’t want to install Authy from Snap, go to this section.
The first and most important step is to install Snap on your Linux distributions. Installation of Authy in Ubuntu using Snap
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