{"id":6715,"date":"2017-04-18T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:41:27","slug":"install-wire-desktop-client-ubuntu-official-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/04\/install-wire-desktop-client-ubuntu-official-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Wire Desktop Client in Ubuntu via Its Official Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wireapp-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6716\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wire, an open source, encrypted instant messaging client created by Wire Swiss, finally gets an official APT repository for Debian-based distributions to make it easy to install and receive automatic updates to the app.<\/p>\n<p>The team <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@wireapp\/a-step-forward-for-wire-for-linux-52f0538cac15\" target=\"_blank\">announced the APT repository<\/a> for Wire Desktop:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Today we\u2019re happy to take a big step forward\u200a\u2014\u200aDebian-based distributions (like Ubuntu or Mint) can now get Wire Desktop via APT. You can receive updates of Wire through the update mechanism of your own package management system. Updates are automatic and more secure as we sign the repositories with a PGP key.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-desktop-app.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-desktop-app-600x331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-desktop-app-600x331.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-desktop-app-450x248.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-desktop-app-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-desktop-app.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open terminal by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>, and get started by following steps to add Wire repository and install Wire for Desktop:<\/p>\n<p>1. If you already installed Wire, uninstall it (don\u2019t worry, your history will be kept):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove wire<\/pre>\n<p>2. Install apt-transport-https to receive the package via HTTPS<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https<\/pre>\n<p>3. Import the PGP signing key to be able to verify the downloaded package:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys http:\/\/wire-app.wire.com\/linux\/releases.key<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-gpg-600x97.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"97\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-gpg-600x97.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-gpg-450x73.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-gpg.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Add our repository address to your sources list:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">echo \"deb https:\/\/wire-app.wire.com\/linux\/debian stable main\" | sudo tee \/etc\/apt\/sources.list.d\/wire-desktop.list<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-repo-600x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-repo-600x96.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-repo-450x72.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wire-repo.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Finally update and install wire-desktop:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install wire-desktop<\/pre>\n<p>After that, you can receive automatic updates to this app via <b>Software Updater<\/b> utility.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To uninstall Wire desktop client, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get remove wire-desktop && sudo apt-get autoremove<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the APT repository, go to Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software tab.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/remove-wire-repo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/remove-wire-repo-450x267.jpg\" alt=\"remove wire repository\" width=\"450\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/remove-wire-repo-450x267.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/remove-wire-repo-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/remove-wire-repo-600x356.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/remove-wire-repo.jpg 773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wire, an open source, encrypted instant messaging client created by Wire Swiss, finally gets an official APT repository for Debian-based distributions to make it easy to install and receive automatic updates to the app. The team announced the APT repository for Wire Desktop: Today we\u2019re happy to take a big step forward\u200a\u2014\u200aDebian-based distributions (like Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1436,1437],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-wire-desktop-app","tag-wire-for-linux"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}