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### Signal Messenger
(How to Get the APK for DeGoogled Phones)
Signal is a great open-source messenger app that is available across all platforms. Linux, Android, DeGoogled Andriod, MS, Apple, Linux phones, and iPhones.
Signal end-to-end encryption is the current standard that many chat apps follow and use, such as WhatsApp.
Unfortunately, Signal won't use F-Droid because they say the F-Droid app store is vulnerable to exploits. So if you want to install Signal on Android w/out using the Google Play Store, they offer an APK, and a signature key, but they don't make the APK easy to find.
So here's the link to the APK:
[Signal Messenger APK](https://signal.org/android/apk/)
This 👉 [post](
) shows you how to verify the Signal APK signing certificate.quoting nevent1q…zrtw
### Signal - Verify APK
1. Download the Signal APK from the link below to your Linux computer by clicking the "Download" button and saving it to a directory, such as the "Download" directory in your "home" directory:
[Signal APK for Android/DeGoogled Phones](https://signal.org/android/apk/)
2. Install apksigner onto Linux. On Ubuntu based distros (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.), type this into a terminal:
```
sudo apt install apksigner
```
3. Open a terminal and go to the directory where you downloaded the Signal APK into, & type this into a terminal:
(replace this apk filename with your apk filename)
```
apksigner verify --print-certs --min-sdk-version 25 Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-6.6.3.apk
```
4. You can then verify the SHA256 fingerprint on the website with the SHA256 fingerprint from the output
5. Transfer the APK to your phone & install. You can transfer using a USB cable, [KDE Connect](nevent1q…qhuw), or by using [SFTP and Material Files](nevent1q…3j3u).
>Notes
"-min-sdk-version 25" means verify the signatures work on Android API versions 7.1 & higher. This will eliminate warnings for any unsupported version below 7.1
You can see 👉 [more API levels here](https://www.javatpoint.com/android-api-levels).
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This 👉 [post (video)](
) shows you how to install Signal on Linux using an Ubuntu/Mint PPA.quoting nevent1q…hlgd
#### How to Install Signal Using Official PPA
To install the latest Signal on Debian based distros, such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint, go to this 👉 [page](https://signal.org/download/#) for installation instructions.
Click the "Download for Linux" button and these instructions will pop up. See the copy and paste video example above.
### Linux (Debian-based) Install Instructions
>NOTE: These instructions only work for 64 bit Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Mint etc.
1. Install the official public software signing key
```
wget -O- https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor > signal-desktop-keyring.gpg
cat signal-desktop-keyring.gpg | sudo tee -a /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
```
2. Add our repository to your list of repositories:
```
echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main' |\
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
```
3. Update your package database and install Signal:
```
sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop
```
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