What's the installation procedure for F-Droid Priviledged Extension?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been having some troubles trying to install the f-droid privileged extension on my Pixel XL running Android 9.0. When I try to update or install applications using the privileged extension, I get an error saying “Error installing package: the privileged permissions have not been granted to the extension!”.

Here are the steps I took to install F-droid and friends:

  1. Installed the standard f-droid apk from f-droid.org
  2. Downloaded and installed “F-Droid privileged extension” application from within f-droid itself (F-Droid Privileged Extension | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository)
  3. Flashed the ota zip from TWRP (https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid.privileged.ota_2090.zip)

Is this the right order? I’ve tried some other permutations but haven’t had any luck yet. If anyone could provide any suggestions or let me know what they have tried, I would love to hear it.

I miss the functionality to install without having to click through each update/installation - the only time I’ve ever actually had this working was when I ran LineageOS-microG with f-droid privileged preinstalled

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I’m using Magisk and the corresponding module (aka no TWRP), can you try that?

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I’d like to avoid using Magisk here. I am running LineageOS and one of the LOS developers told me in IRC that updating LOS with Magisk installed can brick /system. Ever since then, I’ve been using lineageOS’s su addon to prevent further breakage

I feel like this possible without Magisk and am pretty curious to how one is supposed to install the extension

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Check the bug reports, there are some issues flashing on some 9.0 ROMs Issues · F-Droid / privileged-extension · GitLab

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But really, if you’re using LineageOS, then just flash Lineage-for-MicroG, and its built-in.

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Thanks - I do feel like I’m running into this bug:

Good to know that it’s not just me

I might consider flashing LOS-for-microG but for the time being I’m going to try to get this working on LOS - I’d rather not migrate or flash a new ROM. I have having this problem on stock also

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