Byzantium backports unofficial

Yeah! In this case @VClaw just could download zip archive or make git clone --depth 1.

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Yeah, the phone is working fine just no connection. Terminal works fine. What did you install from the sdcard?

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What zip should I download?

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You can download the files to an SD from another device and then install them from your phone

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So just finish what is left? Install Deb files doesn’t require connection? I can try it.

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Thanks, I will try it.

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gnome-calls 48~beta.1 is ready for testing!

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Just a note, if anyone comes across similar situation. This got solved by deleting first the settings (rm .config/pulse/*), then reinstalling pulseaudio to getting them back (sudo apt-get re-install pulseaudio) and starting the service just for good measure (systemctl --user start pulseaudio). All devices re-appeared. Still don’t know what happened, but I guess it doesn’t matter.

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Did you get it figured out?

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Negative, something is wrong with the image that I use maybe. I might try again today.

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still no working, I am doing the pmos gnome-mobile for now. somehow chatty curosr is in the right position. ha. My other phone is using the backports installed before for coding and testing stuffs, I won’t reinstall that one since too many configurations to make it work. Ha.

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You have two L5’s? Why not try doing whole disc image from one and copy it to the other? You can always revert back by overwriting it.

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that one i used the pmos and already setuo a lot of stuffs for coding part, so I need to reflash as well. However, too many configurations for my evnironment to setup on Alpine, docker, vscode, gnome builder… took me awhile to make it work, dont want to change it. ha. the one i am using right now, free to flash. just need time ha. tjanks for the advice.

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Just how safe is downloading “Byzantium backports unofficial” from Russia’s Yandex dot RU?
We hear so much American anti-Russia propaganda it has me wondering if the file byzantium-backports-240716-2.zip is safe be it is coming from Yandex.

I’m sure @galilley you are confident it is safe. But - :thinking:

UPDATE:
I read the following on Yandex wiki

Privacy concerns

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According to Douglas J. Leith, a computer science professor at Trinity College, Yandex Browser not only sends a hashed hardware identifier to Yandex, but also every letter typed in the address bar and every URL visited by the user.[17]

~s

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That link is no longer up-to-date. This is the up-to-date

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Yeah, about old links…

The link you provided goes to https://codeberg.org/galilley/librem5-byzantium-backports where there is another link:

“for detailed description.”
and that link (https://forums.puri.sm/t/byzantium-backports-unofficial/"(for detailed description.)

results in:

Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.

A long bumpy ride back to square one.

~s

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Unfortunately I can not edit the first message int this thread anymore, so, please follow the next one, marked as a solution.

About the files to download… I believe that the rules are the same for all domains independent of political agenda - you must be careful, check extensions, use antivirus software and so on :wink: . If I were you and worried that someone will track my downloads, I would use tor. And the last point - I did not recommend to use Yandex Browser and can not recognize how it related to the file upload service…

p.s. sorry for the bad links, fixed.

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Thank you for the redirect. Looks too complicated with all the try this and such. I’ll wait.
~s

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Yes, you are right, the whole installation is quite complicated and could result in some non-trivial problems… But if you are interested in some special programs I could try to rebuild that in a clean Byzantium environment like phosh-antispam.

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