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Belgium eID by BOSA, Wouter Verhelst

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Review by Firefox user 14105053
by Firefox user 14105053, 7 years ago
It 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

Developer response

posted 7 years ago
This 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)...
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