prey

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Submitted by NielDK on Thu, 2014/05/29 - 02:25
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OBS! This version unfortunately no longer is working.
Please hold on for a new version (nodejs based)

Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever missing, whether you're in town or abroad. Open source, proven software with hundreds of documented recoveries all around the world.

For more information, please visit:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1415521&postcount=1

and

http://preyproject.com/

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Changelog: 

- Updated with requirement for fcron
- and laptop-detect included which caused 1st time registration issue

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HansRoulade

Sun, 2023/11/05 - 03:37

I'm aware that this is almost 10 years old, but I'd love to see this again on my Xperia 10 III. Any chance...?

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samiperkele

Fri, 2014/06/06 - 03:39

I get this when I run prey.sh (and I have free device slots).

[root@Jolla prey]# /usr/share/prey/prey.sh

 ## PREY 0.6.3 spreads its wings!
## Linux Jolla 3.4.0.20140403.1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 9 01:34:48 UTC 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
## Fri Jun  6 02:32:24 EEST 2014

 -- Looking for connection...
-- Got network connection!

 == Registering device under account!

 -- Gathering system and hardware information...
-- Sending request to Prey Control Panel...
-- Got response status 422.
-- Couldn't add this device to your account. Make sure you have available slots!
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samiperkele

Fri, 2014/06/06 - 03:26

How can I get the device key now that it cannot be gotten from the Prey website?

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NielDK

Fri, 2014/06/06 - 10:30

Did you try the latest version ? If so, I have work to do :)

Otherwise, what you can do, is to install previous version  (0.6.2) - download it, and install it manually in terminal (or ssh to phone)

$ devel-su
# wget https://openrepos.net/sites/default/files/packages/500/prey-0.6.2-6.armv7hl.rpm --no-check-certificate
# zypper in prey-0.6.2-6.armv7hl.rpm

After that, you can upgrade to 0.6.3 with no issues

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samiperkele

Fri, 2014/06/06 - 16:24

Yes, I installed Prey just yesterday and used the latest 0.6.3 package from here.

I installed prey 0.6.2 now and I got the device added. Thanks :)

PS. I used "pkcon install-local" insted of zypper, because it is installed by default. Are there any reasons why zypper would be better?

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NielDK

Fri, 2014/06/06 - 16:42

Naw, pkcon is probably better choice.

I just kind og use zypper by default.

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HolgerN

Tue, 2014/03/04 - 21:42

It works now :).

 

The correct path for prey is /usr/share/prey/

The prey.timer and prey.service can be put to /etc/systemd/system/

systemctl enable prey.timer enables the timer.

 

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NielDK

Tue, 2014/03/04 - 09:44

For Prey, you need perl and perl modules  IO::Socket:SSL and also Net::SSLeay which you need to install using cpan.
For this, you need development tools cc etc, and -devel version of fx openssl.

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Victorious

Tue, 2014/03/04 - 06:53

Trying to install, but:

Error occured

Status:deb-resolution-failed

Extra detals:

nothing provides perl-IO-Socket-SSL needed by prey-0.6.2-1.armv7hl

What am I doing wrong?