Re: whatsapp on Debian?
On Sunday 18 October 2015 13:55:06 foster2cbrandon@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If you check out WhatsApp's website, or the wikipedia page:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp The only supported operating systems
> are on phones. Since it's a mobile phone app, I would guess there is no PC
> port of this.
> > On Oct 18, 2015, at 12:36, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> writes:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> On 17/10/2015 9:52 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >>> I've found several how-to's about installing whatsapp on Linux and
> >>> Debian but none of them was useful to me. Anyone out there who was
> >>> successful with the issue and can report how to do?
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what you need, but the secure messaging part (when it is
> >> done right) is being handled with code from the TextSecure project.
> >> If that is what you are after, then you might want to consider looking
> >> at that project -- Android TextSecure / Red Phone .... iOS Signal is
> >> the equivalent, but in one app. The Android apps are expected to
> >> become one app too, but not sure when.
> >>
> >> https://whispersystems.org/
> >>
> >> The apps on github:
> >> https://github.com/whispersystems/
> >
> > Thanks. But, as far as I understand, that's not for PCs, only for
> > phones... What I want is instead to use whatsapp from my PC.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rodolfo
Open https://web.whatsapp.com/
Take a picture of the QR-code from out of WhatsApp on your phone and voilá
WhatsApp in a (any) browser. But you still need the phone to do that. Don't
know if that suits your need.
Cheers
Eike
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