My solution to Zoom on Linux is to always use the browser, never the zoom application. It works (at least in Firefox), it involves minimal hassle.
-- Russell Senior [email protected] On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 12:09 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the Zoom client installed on a Xubuntu machine in my living room. > I tried to connect to a meeting and got an "update required" (or words > to that effect) message. When I clicked on whatever the button was for > proceeding it downloaded a Windows install file. I went to the Zoom site > and downloaded zoom_amd64.deb. I right clicked on it to open it in the > Software install program. I got a window telling me something about > licenses needing to be updated, or something like that. (I'm not in the > living room right now and don't recall the details.) There were two > things to correct, and a link that told me it would take me to a page > that would explain how to do it. Clicking on that produced no response. > Hovering over it showed me a link to a page on Zoom's website, so I > copied that link and went to it in Firefox. At the time I didn't have > time to spend reading all the stuff, but none of it looked to be > particularly useful. > > The main problem at the moment is that that window with license stuff > has no window controls. The only way I found to get rid of it was to > restart Xubuntu. > > Any ideas on how to deal with this? I have other computers with working > Zoom client installations so I don't need it immediately, but the living > room computer has a connection to the TV and stereo systems for better > picture and sound, so I'd like to fix it. > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens >
