Preinstalled incompatible signatures: microG & Pdf Viewer Plus (GSnathan)

[kolAflash]

Hi,
I just successfully installed the FP3+ beta on my new FP3+.

Android Q beta for FP3 and FP3+

I installed F-Droid and added the official microG repository.

F-Droid repository - microG Project

Sadly I can’t update microG this way, because the signature of the preinstalled microG differs.

Later on I also installed Aurora-Store (an alternative PlayStore frontend), which offered me an update for “Pdf Viewer Plus” (by GSnathan).
Sadly I also couldn’t update that app because of a differing signature.
adb logcat:
PackageManager: Package com.gsnathan.pdfviewer signatures do not match previously installed version; ignoring!

Is it normal, that /e/ delivers apps without their official signatures?
Or is this just because of the FP3+ beta state?

[kolAflash]

P.S.
Workaround for microG which works fine for me (I need this for the “Exposure Notification” API which just got available with the latest microG update).

Magisk-Modules-Repo/microG_installer

[kolAflash]

Looks like eOS explicitly delivers a custom microG version.
So it’s standard eOS behavior to have a different signature on the microG app.

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[kolAflash]

Another P.S.
If you like to keep/reinstall the Magisk microG installer after an system update, you need to keep TWRP and reflash Magisk via TWRP. To achieve this you need to run TWRP A/B Retention Script (twrp-keep) (from Magisk) before rebooting when you just accepted the update installation. See also:

Preserve TWRP and/or Magisk after system update

Unfortunately the official TWRP app also doesn’t seem work for A/B devices (yet). But there’s a Magisk module: TWRP A/B Retention Script (twrp-keep) I’ll give it a try at the next eOS update.

[YoannC]

Hi, I have the same problem with PDF viewer plus, the version we have is 3.2 but there is a more recent one in Apps (3.7). Unfortunately, we can’t download and replace it, is there a reason for that?
I hoped that the newer version of /e/os would include the latest version of PDF viewer plus but it’s not the case, too bad !
I’m craving for the newest version of PDF viewer plus because there are some PDF documents that I can’t open now
Thanks for your help !

[kisman172]

let’s have a look here:

Pfd viewer plus - latest version

The reason is that /e/ include the old version of Pdf Viewer Plus as a (hidden) system app. It may be possible to uninstall the system version - search the forum for “Uninstall system apps” - and then install the up-to-date version from F-Droid Indeed, if /e/ is going to include apps as system apps, even though many people have no need or use for them - they really should make a point of always including the most recent version. I was going to suggest creating an issue in gitlab, but there’s …