signal-cli uses a [patched libsignal-service-java](https://github.com/AsamK/libsignal-service-java), because
libsignal-service-java does not yet
support [provisioning as a linked device](https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-service-java/pull/21). For
-registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls. signal-cli is primarily intended to be
-used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a dbus
-interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-dbus.5.adoc)), that can be used to
-send messages from any programming language that has dbus bindings. It also has a JSON-RPC based interface, see
-the [documentation](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/JSON-RPC-service) for more information.
+registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls.
+
+signal-cli is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a daemon mode with D-BUS
+interface ([man page](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/man/signal-cli-dbus.5.adoc)) and JSON-PRC interface ([documentation](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/JSON-RPC-service)). For the JSON-RPC interface there's also a simple [example client](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/tree/master/client), written in Rust.
## Installation
-You can [build signal-cli](#building) yourself, or use
+You can [build signal-cli](#building) yourself or use
the [provided binary files](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/latest), which should work on Linux, macOS and
-Windows. For Arch Linux there is also a [package in AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-cli/) and there is
-a [FreeBSD port](https://www.freshports.org/net-im/signal-cli) available as well.
+Windows. There's also a [docker image and some Linux packages](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Binary-distributions) provided by the community.
System requirements:
- at least Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 17
- native library: libsignal-client
- The native libs are bundled for x86_64 Linux (with recent enough glibc, see #643), Windows and MacOS. For other systems/architectures
+ The native libs are bundled for x86_64 Linux (with recent enough glibc), Windows and MacOS. For other
+ systems/architectures
see: [Provide native lib for libsignal](https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/wiki/Provide-native-lib-for-libsignal)
### Install system-wide on Linux
* Pipe the message content from another process.
- uname -a | signal-cli -a ACCOUNT send RECIPIENT
+ uname -a | signal-cli -a ACCOUNT send --message-from-stdin RECIPIENT
* Receive messages