zoom conferencing software advice?
It seems I may need to start using this ... does anyone have any experience using it with slackware (preferably 14.2 x86_64)?
It seems that there's a 'generic linux' download bundle ... I'm vacillating between trying that or downloading one of the rpm formats and running it thru rpm2tgz first so I can use removepkg if it doesn't end up being needed. TIA |
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You should be able to just run the following command to get the required files and directories for the program. With some minor tweaking of my SlackBuild, it should be able to create a Slackware package pretty easily. Code:
ar p zoom_amd64.deb data.tar.xz | unxz | tar xv |
I haven't actually used it for a meeting, but the generic linux tarball appears to work. I got the first screen up and didn't see any striking errors in stdout.
I just extracted the tarball into its own directory and ran "zoom" from within there. Easy enough to clean up. Code:
$ ./zoom |
To build on Richard's post, if you want to use that generic build, you could just add a symlink to /usr/bin/ to point to wherever you have that package extracted.
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With anything like this, I recommend running ldd or objdump to see what libraries it uses (if it's not statically compiled) so that if necessary, you can obtain the libraries it wants.
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It requires qt5. I ran ldd on the zoom binary that I extracted from
zoom_x86_64.tar.xz and I got this: Code:
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If so, this just might turn into "another fine growth opportunity". Thanks for everyone's input so far. Off to do more research. |
The slackbuild for QT5 works rather well and QT5 can co-exist with QT4.
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0 ✓ cranium@cranium ~ $ cd ~/Downloads/zoom/zoom/ |
Thanks everyone - It seems I tried to make this much harder than it needed to be. As Richard Cranium pointed out, I just
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Marking this solved. |
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In my case, I was experiencing the same problem and it turns out it was our proxy who was blocking zoom communications... I simply temporarily disabled my proxy seetings (->System settings->Network->Network proxy) and then it just worked perfectly... I have to contact IT people! Best, |
I've been using Zoom in Slackware-64 -current and kde5 and have no complaints with it. I think I tried it with xfce also and it works there also if i recall correctly.
It works with OpenBoard-1.53 and my cheap logitech webcam and my lovely NikonZ6 used as webcam and does everything I want it to do. You need to watch out for where your screens and windows are if you are screensharing and videosharing etc, so some planning ahead and trying it out (a rehearsal if you will) in advance of a major event is a good idea. |
Zoom works for 14.2 and Slackware-current. It's on SBo.
http://www.slackbuilds.org/repositor...rk/zoom-linux/ |
Zoom also seems to come with a bunch of security issues. Including webcam hijacks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoff...-settings-now/ https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21...emand-response https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-bug-webcam-hackers/ |
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