fatal TLS alert on uri

a user tryn to install briar GTK reports the following issue:

I get "error: Can't load uri https://flatpak.dorfbrunnen.eu/repo/appstream/app.briar.gtk.flatpakref: Peer sent fatal TLS alert: Error in protocol version" when I try to flatpak it

original report is here: https://mastodon.social/@fav/104128177572053077

Thanks for forwarding this issue here!

This could have happened because I only allowed TLS 1.3 connections to flatpak.dorfbrunnen.eu, but maybe the world isn't ready yet for this. For the moment, I also allowed TLS 1.2. Could you give this information back to the reporting person and might also link to this issue?

Thanks a lot!

I did. Here the discourse that evolved from it:

briar account: Ok, then this might due to the reason that only TLS 1.3 connections were allowed to flatpak.dorfbrunnen.eu. Nico changed that and also allows TLS 1.2 for now. You might like to test again? Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for testing the alpha version. here’s the related issue, Nico just responded to: #50 (closed) (feel free to report back to me, or directly to the git issue)

issue reporter: @briar now I get "error: The application app.briar.gtk/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.36 which was not found" guess it's better for me to wait for the deb or snap... too technical :D

supporter add also the flathub repo. flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo @briar

issue reporter: getting the same error :(

supporter: you can also try to install the gnome runtime manually: flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.36

issue reporter: that worked, was able to install both now! ... now I need to figure out how to run briar... :D

issue reporter: figured it out! :D add me briar://adpkpe6m7yb2qcjwxvia75msif4xn67bl57kwqcllkp5qwroqqbrc

They’re using Linux Mint. They wrote here a tutorial how they could install briar GTK: https://www.publish0x.com/fav/privacy-how-to-install-and-run-briar-in-linux-mint-xvreqod?a=WZdP83ydKg&tid=briar

"I tried to get it up and running according to this instructions from the GTK Dev, but I really couldn't figure it out for Mint. So I went on a rather long Mastodon discussion with the Briar devs and other users, and they eventually helped me figure out how to install and use it."

Their described steps are:

1. flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
2. flatpak install flathub org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.36
3. flatpak install --user https://flatpak.dorfbrunnen.eu/repo/appstream/app.briar.gtk.flatpakref
4. flatpak run app.briar.gtk

I asume their issue was, that they run an outdated version of Linux Mint, and got confused by the installation introduction provided by flatpak: "Flatpak support is built into Linux Mint 18.3 and newer—no setup required!" https://flatpak.org/setup/Linux%20Mint/

mentioned in commit 1c32121f

mentioned in merge request !34 (merged)

@syster

I assume their issue was, that they run an outdated version of Linux Mint

I also thought that, but seems not to be the case:

Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia

That's the latest Linux Mint release.

In addition to @syster's !32 (merged), I just merged !34 (merged) that contains some additional installation information.

closed