Installing 1Password on Fedora Silverblue with rpm-ostree

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The Advantages of Installing 1Password as an Overlay

There are four ways of installing 1Password on Silverblue and I tried all of them.

1. using the unofficial now-official Flatpak
2. using Toolbox
3. using Nix
4. using rpm-ostree

Out of those four, I recommend using either the Flatpak or rpm-ostree. Use the Flatpak, if you are okay with

• unlocking your browser extension separately
• typing in your password every time, rather than using your system authentication or fingerprint reader
• not using the SSH agent.

If you want to use any of those features, you should instead install it using the RPM package.

Installing 1Password using rpm-ostree

Run

cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/1password.repo
[1password]
name=1Password Stable Channel
baseurl=https://downloads.1password.com/linux/rpm/stable/\$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://downloads.1password.com/linux/keys/1password.asc
EOF

Then install it using

rpm-ostree install 1password 1password-cli

Now reboot and enjoy all the features :)

Why not to use Toolbox or Nix

Using Toolbox (or Distrobox, for better integration) means you have to install a normal Fedora Workstation on your shiny, immutable Fedora and keep this container up-to-date. Otherwise, your 1Password client will be out of date too. I don’t use these containers for anything else. I forget about them and then realize, much later, that my 1Password installation is completely out-dated.

Because I use Nix (or rather home-manager) for all my CLI apps and VS Code, I also tried installing 1Password with it. However, it basically has the same restrictions as the Flatpak, at least on a non-NixOS system. Apparently the Polkit integration of the GUI does work when installing it as a module on NixOS, but it doesn’t on Fedora.

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