Signal-Desktop RPM

Build an rpm package for Signal-Desktop to install Signal on Fedora / RHEL 7.

How to build the RPM?

1. Clone the repo && cd into it.
2. Execute make clean && make dependencies && make build
3. Install the just built rpm package (./RPMS/x86_64/*.rpm) with either yum or dnf.
4. Execute signal-desktop from the commandline.

New Signal Version?

If my current Signal copy is outdated you should be able to execute ./update.sh and rebuild the rpm package.

Why does this even exist?

The official Repository for Signal doesn't yet contain an official rpm for Fedora/RHEL users. Furthermore I never built an rpm by myself, so I thought that would make a good learning project.

Can I test that?

Sure you can! I've included a simple but useful Vagrantfile in the project root. With this you can spawn two VirtualBox VMs (CentOS 7 & Fedora 27), build the source and see for yourself if it's working or not. (Let me know if something isn't).

Fedora:

vagrant up fedora && vagrant ssh fedora
cd /vagrant
make dependencies && make build
dnf install ./RPMS/x86_64/Signal-Desktop-1.11.0-1.fc27.x86_64.rpm

CentOS

vagrant up centos7 && vagrant ssh centos7
cd /vagrant
make dependencies && make build
sudo yum install ./RPMS/x86_64/Signal-Desktop-1.11.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -y

Credits / References

• signalapp/Signal-Desktop
• AUR Signal package @dbirks (Jake)
• Fedora docs: Creating RPM packages