Error: Error: Specified native messaging host not found.

[alenpaulvarghese]

General information

• Ubuntu 64bit + 20.04 LTS:
• Chrome + Version 81.0.4044.129 (Official Build) (64-bit):
• Information about the host app:
  • latest version of browser-pass
• How did I Installed it?
  1. First Installed Extension
  2. Tried using webext-browserpass but was not working
  3. so manually downloaded native from here
  4. extracted it and done make BIN=browserpass-linux64 configure(done without error) and
     sudo make BIN=browserpass-linux64 install(done without error)

Result:

make BIN=browserpass-linux64 configure
/usr/bin/sed -i 's|"path": ".*"|"path": "'"/usr/bin/browser-linux64"'"|' browser-files/chromium-host.json
/usr/bin/sed -i 's|"path": ".*"|"path": "'"/usr/bin/browser-linux64"'"|' browser-files/firefox-host.json

sudo make BIN=browserpass-linux64 install
/usr/bin/install -Dm755 -t "/usr/bin/" browserpass-linux64
/usr/bin/install -Dm644 -t "/usr/lib/browserpass/" Makefile
/usr/bin/install -Dm644 -t "/usr/share/licenses/browserpass/" LICENSE
/usr/bin/install -Dm644 -t "/usr/share/doc/browserpass/" README.md
/usr/bin/install -Dm644 browser-files/chromium-host.json   "/usr/lib/browserpass/hosts/chromium/com.github.browserpass.native.json"
/usr/bin/install -Dm644 browser-files/chromium-policy.json "/usr/lib/browserpass/policies/chromium/com.github.browserpass.native.json"
/usr/bin/install -Dm644 browser-files/firefox-host.json    "/usr/lib/browserpass/hosts/firefox/com.github.browserpass.native.json"

5.  cd to usr/lib/browserpass/ 
6.  make hosts-chrome-user (There was no symlink errors)

What should happen?

Browser pass extension working

What happened instead?

Error: Error: Specified native messaging host not found.

[maximbaz]

hey, isn't new Ubuntu using snap packages now by default? if so, this is a dup of #82

could you please confirm?

[alenpaulvarghese]

hey, isn't new Ubuntu using snap packages now by default? if so, this is a dup of #82

could you please confirm?

but i dont actualy use snap store , as far as i remember i umasked snap service out

[maximbaz]

Just a random check (an idea from that other thread): could you see if you have this folder? ~/snap/chromium/

[alenpaulvarghese]

Nope Below is the folder tree

├── canonical-livepatch
│   ├── 95
│   ├── common
│   └── current -> 95
└── snap-store
    ├── 394
    ├── 433
    ├── common
    └── current -> 433

[maximbaz]

Ok! Just as an idea, could you pls try system-wide browser config, i.e. make hosts-chrome? It seems it really depends on the distro, I can never predict which of the two will work for a given user, user-specific or system-wide 🙂

[alenpaulvarghese]

😄 Already done that before posting the issue

It didt fixed the issue

[maximbaz]

Hmmm to be honest I dont have any other idea, you could try to double-check that everything is correct, i.e. go to ~/.config/google-chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/, see json file, open it, see that the path to browserpass binary is correct and is valid... 🤔

[alenpaulvarghese]

/usr/bin/browser-linux64

no such file or directory

[maximbaz]

Nice 👍 Sounds like sudo make BIN=browserpass-linux64 install didn't succeed for you after all

[maximbaz]

Ah, I see, I think you had a typo and used BIN=browser-linux64 instead of BIN=browserpass-linux64 in either install or configure command

[alenpaulvarghese]

oh yes my bad ,

I am really soory for disturbing you.
Thanks for helping me 😄

[maximbaz]

No worries, enjoy the extension! 🙂