Adding a repo using dnf / signal-desktop

[Max Pyziur]

Greetings,

With the recent upgrade from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41, I lost signal-desktop. The repo as listed for the F40 version is:
Signal Messaging Devel Project (Fedora_40)

Google says to install OpenSuse packages using commands:
dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_Rawhide/...
dnf install signal-desktop

But. --add-repo is not valid. More googling, and the recommendation is to change it to --addrepo;

A variety of variations and still no progress.

Thank you for any and all advice.

Max
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[Barry]

> On 18 Nov 2024, at 02:32, Max Pyziur  wrote:
>
> 
> Greetings,
>
> With the recent upgrade from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41, I lost signal-desktop. The repo as listed for the F40 version is:
> Signal Messaging Devel Project (Fedora_40)
>
> Google says to install OpenSuse packages using commands:
> dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_Rawhide/...
> dnf install signal-desktop
>
> But. --add-repo is not valid. More googling, and the recommendation is to change it to --addrepo;
>
> A variety of variations and still no progress.
>
> Thank you for any and all advice.

Dnf was updated from dnf4 to dnf5. Some long time deprecated command where removed.

See `man dnf` and https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html for details of the commands.

Barry
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[Max Pyziur]

> On 11/18/2024 4:01 AM EST Barry  wrote:
> > On 18 Nov 2024, at 02:32, Max Pyziur  wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > With the recent upgrade from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41, I lost signal-desktop. The repo as listed for the F40 version is: 
> >  Signal Messaging Devel Project (Fedora_40)
> >
> > Google says to install OpenSuse packages using commands: 
> >  dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_Rawhide/... 
> >  dnf install signal-desktop
> >
> > But. --add-repo is not valid. More googling, and the recommendation is to change it to --addrepo;
> >
> > A variety of variations and still no progress.
> >
> > Thank you for any and all advice.
>
> Dnf was updated from dnf4 to dnf5. Some long time deprecated command where removed.
>
> See `man dnf` and https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html%C2%A0for details of the commands.

Thank you. There doesn't seem to be a way of using it to install repos.

Is that correct? If no, then what is the procedure; if yes, then what is the non-dnf process of properly installing repos.

Max
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[Todd Zullinger]

Max Pyziur wrote:
> > On 11/18/2024 4:01 AM EST Barry  wrote:
> > > On 18 Nov 2024, at 02:32, Max Pyziur  wrote:
> > >
> > > With the recent upgrade from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41, I
> > > lost signal-desktop. The repo as listed for the F40
> > > version is:
> > >
> > > Signal Messaging Devel Project (Fedora_40)
> > >
> > > Google says to install OpenSuse packages using commands:
> > >
> > > dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_Rawhide/... 
> > >  dnf install signal-desktop
> > >
> > > But. --add-repo is not valid. More googling, and the recommendation is to change it to --addrepo;

Google (or other search engines) aren't really the best
tools to find good documentation for recently changed
commands (IMO).  It's clearly giving you useless, outdated
information here.
> > Dnf was updated from dnf4 to dnf5. Some long time deprecated command where removed.
> >
> > See `man dnf` and https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html%C2%A0for details of the commands.
>
> Thank you. There doesn't seem to be a way of using it to install repos.
>
> Is that correct? If no, then what is the procedure; if yes, then what is the non-dnf process of properly installing repos.

No, that is not correct.

As Barry suggested, check the dnf documentation, online¹,
the dnf-config-manager(8) man page, or dnf --help, dnf
config-manager --help, dnf config-manager addrepo --help,
etc.

Any of those should quickly lead you to the proper syntax:

dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_Rawhide/...

I don't know if the installed signal-desktop works or not,
but that's not really relevant here.  IF it doesn't work
after installing, that's something to take up with the
third-party repo provider. :)

¹ https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnf5_plugins/config-manager.8.html#con...

[Max Pyziur]

> On 11/18/2024 10:37 AM EST Todd Zullinger  wrote:

[...]
> > > Dnf was updated from dnf4 to dnf5. Some long time deprecated command where removed.
> > >
> > > See `man dnf` and https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/index.html%C2%A0for details of the commands.
> >
> > Thank you. There doesn't seem to be a way of using it to install repos.
> >
> > Is that correct? If no, then what is the procedure; if yes, then what is the non-dnf process of properly installing repos.
>
> No, that is not correct.
>
> As Barry suggested, check the dnf documentation, online¹,
> the dnf-config-manager(8) man page, or dnf --help, dnf
> config-manager --help, dnf config-manager addrepo --help,
> etc.
>
> Any of those should quickly lead you to the proper syntax:
> dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:im:signal/Fedora_Rawhide/network:im:signal.repo

Thank you. We're in business.

MP
> I don't know if the installed signal-desktop works or not,
> but that's not really relevant here.  IF it doesn't work
> after installing, that's something to take up with the
> third-party repo provider. :)
>
> ¹ https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnf5_plugins/config-manager.8.html#con...
>
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