Byzantium backports unofficial

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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]

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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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Sorry it’s taken a while to reply.
Can you PM me costs in CAD$?

~s

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It is for free!

But if you like to support me you might send some CAD$ for a coffee to my crypto wallet or visa card :pray:

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Hi @galilley is the installation still the same? We do full upgrade twice then install kbd those missing apps? I am planning to try again. ha, thanks.

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Hi! Welcome back! :slight_smile:

Yes, the installation must be the same. kbd should be installed automatically as I changed dependency in phosh to mandotary.

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Thanks, will try on my other none daily driver one, by the way, I received two updates on byzantium in these two weeks. I am surprised that they still the update these days while slowly working on the crimson. I hope Crimson doesnt get delayed until next year based on their one blog per month ha. anyone receive the updates from the byzamtium as I do?

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And the third one is coming soon - modemmanager 1.24 (1.23.95 in fact). The most interesting feature according to news page is: support for putting modems in low-power mode during suspend.

I’m also working slowly with Crimson backports to align the versions of the most required packages to Byzantium’s one. After that I will try to migrate. Hope it will be in this year :rofl:

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so they are updating the byzantium while developing the Crimson as well? that is nice.

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I meant backports for both distro, Cri and Byz. :slight_smile:

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Oh, that is not what the updates that I mentioned above. I haven’t installed urs yet but I received two updates from the purism byzantium repo, one of the package is librem5-base-default I believe. I am on a clean byzantium.

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@galilley Phosh 0.46.0 is out!
Is it coming to backports?
:pray:

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Definitely YES!
I will start right now, just give me a few days :slightly_smiling_face:

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new pipewire, rebuilded libcamera and reconfigured kernel to use Cameras everywhere!

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I got a “Errors were encountered while processing: /temp/apt-dpkg-install-jAY360/04-bluez_5.79-1_arm64.dep needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed”. And apparently after reboot the touchscreen doesn’t work (which is a bummer when you need to enter LUKS).

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Ooops…

bluez_5.79 conflicts with librem5-base-defaults but it should be resolved by apt (I propose the version 66pureos1~byz3.1) . So, you could try to upgrade it first.

Touchscreen… it may be related to i2c bus recovery enabled in dts file (which also included in this kernel) by the patch. But I have no issue with my touchscreen… Everything works fine.

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