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kbModalduality | 7 years ago

Keybase developer here.

Keybase uses root privileges only for making the magic /keybase directory available, where you can access your KBFS files (the redirector allows different users on the same system to see their own files). Keybase and KBFS run as unprivileged daemons (via the systemd user manager where available).

As giancarlostoro mentioned, you can unpack the .deb file and run the binaries out of there. If you put the binaries in your $PATH, you can even symlink the systemd unit files to your ~/.config/systemd/user and use the systemd user manager to manage your custom Keybase install. Note that the KBFS mount will not be accessible at /keybase, but instead at another location writable by your user (see https://keybase.io/docs/linux-user-guide#configuring-kbfs).

Finally, our build script at https://github.com/keybase/client/blob/master/packaging/linu... builds all components and assets without root and lets you handle the packaging and install after that.

If you have questions or more custom use cases, feel free to join the keybasefriends team to talk about it or make a GitHub issue!

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unicornporn|7 years ago

If you don't plan to offer your app on F-droid, could you at least provide an APK for download? Signal does that here:

https://signal.org/android/apk/

With Keybase we currently have to resort to shady APK sites.

diaz|7 years ago

I have friends that I know use keybase for work with a specific corporate account. I want to talk to them using their private account which I can't because the app only supports a single logged in user. So, is it easy or possible to have multiple accounts logged in and used at the same time? This includes that support for android also.

Maybe the chat application should be extracted into a separate more native application maybe since another "problem" I see my friends talking about is that it is too slow.

aepc2|7 years ago

Thank you. Any plans for f-droid?

outloudvi|7 years ago

Actually there was a discussion about adding Keybase to F-Droid repositories. However, it seem that contributors in that issue failed to build this app. Would be great if there are helps or guides from Keybase.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/191