I am trying to create a Chats Matrix account as per recent announcement and my Chats app does not have any account type. It always will create an XMPP account. Poking around, I noticed that none of my apps have ever been updated. I attempted to update the 5 before attempting to add the Matrix account to Chats and the phone reported no updates (neither OS or apps).
PureOS store report my Chats app at version 0.2.0 and the command line reports the same version.
As to the apt commands, the update reports āAll packages are up to dateā and the upgrade command reports only ālinux-image-5.12.0-1-librem5ā available to remove (which I did not do).
Oh, thatās really old. Maybe you have the old PureOS release called Amber. To find out, run this command:
cat /etc/os-release
One of the resulting lines should say either
VERSION_CODENAME=byzantium
or
VERSION_CODENAME=amber
I have byzantium and I think everyone is supposed to have byzantium at this point. If you have amber, you should probably upgrade to byzantium, or perhaps reflash with byzantium and start from scratch.
If I am not mistaken the only way to upgrade from Amber to Byzantium is to reflash.
P.S. You will be blown away of how much better your Librem 5 will be after the update to latest versions of the OS and applications. The software has made a huge progress so if you are still using Amber you are going to feel real difference.
This. Plus it is unlikely to enable encryption at all. So if you want to enable encryption, the only way is to choose the correct Byzantium option and reflash from scratch (unless maybe for really advanced users).