I got the file via this command: wget https://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb
then, kaye@laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i viber.deb Selecting previously unselected package viber. (Reading database ... 268263 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack viber.deb ... Unpacking viber (12.0.0.7) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of viber: viber depends on libssl1.0.0; however: Package libssl1.0.0 is not installed. dpkg: error processing package viber (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.62) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: viber Thank you. On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:53 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:40:24AM -0700, ghe wrote: > > > > > > > On Jan 9, 2020, at 10:57 PM, kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Here it is. > > > > > > kaye@laptop:~$ sudo whereis viber > > > [sudo] password for kaye: > > > viber: > > > > It's not on the machine. That explains q lot. > > > > A new install might be in order. Try aptitude or maybe synaptic -- > something that talks a little more than apt-get. > > No, the thing is, it's a snap. It's not a Debian package. > > > Hmm. On my box (Buster) aptitude claims there is nothing called > viber-<anything> at any of my mirrors. I think you need more help than I > can provide. Can anybody help OP? > > A "snap" is a bloated pseudo-package that contains a private copy of > all the shared libraries and other resources needed to run the > application -- sort of like a statically linked binary, but even worse. > The application is also run in some sort of container. It's all very > point-and-click, hand-wavey, "you don't need to know the details" stuff. > > Whatever knowledge you bring to the table from years of Debian > administration is irrelevant. The snap world has completely different > rules and expectations. > > If you've heard of flatpak, that's pretty similar. > >
