Re: Zoom in the official repo is outdated
Jeffrey Walton [2024-04-24 20:13:57] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2024-04-24 at 16:42 -0300, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>>
>> (Please cc me when replying as I'm not subscribed to the list)
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>> Earlier this month, I noticed I was no longer able to login to Zoom
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>> meetings using the client installed from the Debian repos. In order to
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>> join meetings, I had to uninstall it then install the flatpack Zoom package.
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>> I think it should either be updated or outright removed in favor of the
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>> flatpack version. What do you think? Should I report a bug?
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>> I was expected to use zoom for a meeting. The zoom app didn't work at all
>> in Debian 10, completely refusing even to open a window. I at first started
>> with the zoom support in Firefox, but it didn't have a button to select
>> high resolution for the camera, so the meeting host asked me to run in the
>> app.
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>> I re-opened the session on a different computer that is running Debian 12.
>> The app worked OK on that computer.
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>
> Related, if you control the venue, then you might consider using Jitsi.
> Jitsi is open source, and it does not have the obscene terms of service
> that companies like Google, Microsoft and Zoom push onto people using their
> service. With Jitsi, your meeting data is yours. It is not used internally
> for other products, and it is not shared with partners like the Big Tech
> companies do.
There's also BigBlueButton (more featureful than Jitsi, but apparently
harder to install/setup/maintain) and I also heard good things about
Galène https://galene.org/ (which is apparently the simplest to
install/setup/maintain and the least demanding on the server).
Stefan
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