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Installing F-Droid on Nokia 6
Jul 1, 2018 onI had to buy a new phone recently for reasons. I decided to stay on
Android partly because of the apps I’m already using and depending
on. Many of them I install from F-Droid, and
AFAIK most are only available there. As F-Droid is not available on
the Google Play Store, an initial “bootstrapping” is
needed. Typically, you download the .apk
file from the F-Droid site
and install from the file manager.
However, there was apparently no way to install the .apk
file from
the file manager that came with the phone, so I didn’t know what to
do. I looked for the relevant options trying to find the right switch
to make it possible, but I didn’t find anything. I tried to look for
solutions on the internet but again nothing. After several
attempts I figured there must be some application on the Google Play
Store that would allow you to install .apk
files, and I was
right. The problem was, all applications I could see were full of ads
and I’m guessing they would leak a lot of information about the
phone and its user.
After a while, though, I found one that seemed to do what I wanted
without displaying ads and (hopefully) not spying on you. It’s called
App Installer
and it’s made by a certain Eugen C. It was simple to use (it just
finds all .apk
s you have downloaded and presents them so you can
choose which one to install) and it worked like a charm. After that I
could finally start installing the applications I wanted from the
F-Droid store.