Reviews for Belgium eID
Belgium eID by BOSA, Wouter Verhelst
Review by Firefox user 14105053
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 14105053, 7 years agoIt works in Linux Ubuntu 16.04, but first....
Install the software eid-archive.deb as instructed.
Download the tar ball eid-mw.tar.gz and install it from source.
tar -xzvf eid-mw.tar.gz
get into the newly created folder
./configure
install all the missing packages identified. There a few to be installed.
make
sudo make install
the packages are installed in /usr/local/bin
lunch /.about-eid-mw & in /usr/local/bin
note the location of libbeidpkcs11.so.0
Open Firefox preferences and check privacy and security... security devices.
Load a new module, there you point the location of the libbeidpkcs11.so.0
Your id card should be recognized by Firefox and you are ready to go.
Cheers
Pedro
Install the software eid-archive.deb as instructed.
Download the tar ball eid-mw.tar.gz and install it from source.
tar -xzvf eid-mw.tar.gz
get into the newly created folder
./configure
install all the missing packages identified. There a few to be installed.
make
sudo make install
the packages are installed in /usr/local/bin
lunch /.about-eid-mw & in /usr/local/bin
note the location of libbeidpkcs11.so.0
Open Firefox preferences and check privacy and security... security devices.
Load a new module, there you point the location of the libbeidpkcs11.so.0
Your id card should be recognized by Firefox and you are ready to go.
Cheers
Pedro
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThis should not be necessary; you need to follow the two steps on the eid.belgium.be website:
- Install eid-archive.deb, which *enables the repositories* but does not install the eID software yet.
- Then, run "apt-get update" and "apt-get install eid-mw eid-viewer". This installs the eID software from the repositories, and will ensure that the updates are installed.
If you don't do the last step, then you haven't installed the eID software and it's no surprise that things won't work. You can install the software from eid-mw.tar.gz, but that doesn't buy you much that properly installing the packages from the repositories does, and it's a lot more manual work for little benefit (as well as not giving you proper updates)...
- Install eid-archive.deb, which *enables the repositories* but does not install the eID software yet.
- Then, run "apt-get update" and "apt-get install eid-mw eid-viewer". This installs the eID software from the repositories, and will ensure that the updates are installed.
If you don't do the last step, then you haven't installed the eID software and it's no surprise that things won't work. You can install the software from eid-mw.tar.gz, but that doesn't buy you much that properly installing the packages from the repositories does, and it's a lot more manual work for little benefit (as well as not giving you proper updates)...