Zoom

[Tom H]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:05 PM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 30.03.2020, 14:45 +0100 schrieb Ian Bruntlett:


>> It can be downloaded for Linux from
>> https://zoom.us/download
>
> the problem with randomly dpkg -i'ing debs from some site is that they
> do never get updated in case upstream fixes a security issue ...

Most of them add themselves to trusted.gpg and sources.list and are updated.


> ...and that the app can break in case there are any ABI changes in the
> underlying libraries ... so you need to regulary check by hand if the
> deb got updated and manually install the new version.
>
> this is the reason why i created the snap package btw ... it is
> automatically updated if zoom releases a new deb so you get the
> security fixes in a timely manner if they are released.