Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?

[Keith]

On 12/7/21 9:42 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 15:32 +0000, Owen Branley wrote:
>> I can join live streams with Zoom and Vimeo on my legacy laptop using
>> 18.04 LTS but not on my new desktop using 20.04 LTS as video codecs are
>> required. How can I solve this problem without getting involved in complex
>> updates or upgrades? Supplier support is nil!
>>
>> Owen Branley
>
> Zoom works on Kubuntu 20.04 over here. Should be the same on plain vanilla
> Ubuntu as well.
>
> Did you install Zoom this way?
>
> 1. Download the Zoom deb-package.
> 2. As root, run dpkg -i zoom_package.deb.3. Still as root run apt install
> -f. Some packages should be installed at this step.
>
>

It's better to run apt, or a package manager used for installing
downloaded packages locally like gdebi, instead of potentially
introducing breakage in the package database by using dpkg alone.

For instance, a local deb package might have an unsatisfiable dependency
that wouldn't be resolved with apt -f leaving you with an installed
broken package and a possible broken package database in which no other
changes could be made to it until the errors are fixed.

$ sudo apt install ./<package name>.deb

should do the trick. And you can add the "-s" option before the
"install" command to do a test run before any changes to the system are
committed.

--
Keith