Ok. This is very frustrating. The flashing instructions are wrong.
Two issues:
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For whatever reason the live image of PureOS doesn’t not recognize Wifi in two of my computers running (essentially) Debian. So trying to use a live image of PureOS is a total fail and waste of time for this user.
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Using my laptop running Linux Mint (Debian), I followed the instructions (I am not a Linux newbie) and the script fails. Why? Who knows.
2.a. I had to go looking through comments in this forum to try to get a Librem 5 image via the script. @irvinewade solved the problem here: Time to flash is now - but how? - #180 by irvinewade
The issue: I had to point to the “stable” image using
–stable
It is also dumb that the instructions have not been updated to state this fact here: Reflashing the Phone
Can somebody please update the page and instructions so people like me do not have to go down the rabbit-hole to search for the missing commands in order to reflash the phone?
P.S. Another thing to note: I had to use the proper USB-C cable to get it to flash. The first cable did not want to be my friend.