Trying to run Prey on Fedora 36, getting stuck on gui 'Saving...' button

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#1

Hi, I’m trying to run prey project on a device running Linux (Fedora 36), I’ve managed to get the GUI to run by doing the following steps:

  1. Rather than use the prey website, download the latest release from https://github.com/prey/prey-node-client/releases . I’m trying 1.10.10.
  2. Download/unzip prey, you may want to do this into a specific ‘applications’ folder.
  3. Install dependencies (inspired by How I installed Prey on Fedora 26 without NPM with some extra ones) - sudo dnf install xawtv scrot mpg123 dmidecode unzip redhat-lsb-core
  4. Adjust permissions to avoid Error: spawn EACCES errors: chmod -R a+rwx bin/
  5. Run Prey config gui: sudo ./bin/prey config gui.

The issue is when trying to login to prey with an existing account, it just hangs on ‘saving…’ and doesn’t do anything. I don’t see anything in the config to reflect that the api key or anything has been set either. any ideas?

#2

just saw your post and tried to uprgrade my prey client from 1.8.2 to 1.10.10
results:
with 1.10.10 location is completely off . alarm & notifications works (kind of)
with original 1.8.2 location is spot on, alarm & notifications doesn’t work at all
don’t waste your time (like i did) on Prey under Fedora, it is completely useless