[Slackbuilds-users] Anybody else having problems with zoom in 15.0?

[Luveh Keraph]

That's a good point: I went through a similar exercise, with similar
results, also motivated by wondering why the package used for putting
together the Slackware one is retrieved from an obscure and apparently
unofficial location.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 3:43 AM Konrad J Hambrick <kjhambrick at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 7:25 AM Luveh Keraph <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't. My attempts at contacting maintainers in the past have been
>> largely fruitless: it is often the case that if they do not read this list
>> and step in when issues with the modules under their responsibility are
>> brought up, chances are they will not be responsive at all to direct emails
>> either.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 4:43 AM Konrad J Hambrick <kjhambrick at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> so ... Has anyone contacted the maintainer (  Ebben Aries ) ?
>>>
>>> -- kjh
>>>
>>
> More info ...
>
> I wen to the zoom getting started site at
> https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Getting-Started-on-Linux
>
> Then I downloaded the Version 5.13.5 (431) Debian ( .deb ) and the Fedora
> ( .rpm ) packages to a temp directory
>
> I could not find the Arch or Manjoro ( .tgz ) files ...
>
> I converted the .deb via deb2tgz to a Slackware .txz and the .rpm Package
> to a Slackware Package via rpm2archive.
>
> I made deb/ and rpm/ directories and untarred the 'Slackware Packages'
> into the two different temp directories.
>
> In both cases ( deb and rpm ), ./ZoomLauncher worked as expected.
>
>  So ... where did the .tgz package  referenced by the zoom-linux/info at
> https://d11yldzmag5yn.cloudfront.net/prod/5.13.5.431/zoom_x86_64.tar.xz
> come from ?
>
> deb2tgz ran much faster on my system than rpm2archive so ...
>
> Maybe Ebben needs to add a dependency ( deb2tgz ) and use the deb
>
> -- kjh
>
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