When trying to register in Signal-Desktop app via signal-cli-0.8.4.1, I get the following error message in Linux Mint 19.1 terminal:
Missing required native library dependency: libsignal-client
Unfortunately I am not a pro Linux user, so I would be very grateful, if someone can provide a robust instruction to overcome this issue?
What I have done so far:
- Download and unpack signal-cli-0.8.4.1.tar.gz from GitHub.
- Open the terminal and open the respective directory via
$ cd Downloads/signal-cli-0.8.4.1/
- Enter command to register:
$ bin/signal-cli -u MY_NUMBER register
(which results in the error message above).
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Answer
The changelog mentions that with version 0.8.0 of the signal-cli there is a native library of libsignal-client required. See e.g. https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/v0.8.2/CHANGELOG.md which provides a link to https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal to solve this.