ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 208, Issue 12

Tue Dec 7 20:29:37 UTC 2021

Zoom now works on 20.04 LTS. Thanks all for help.

Owen

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>    1. Video codecs for 20.04 LTS? (Owen Branley)
>    2. Re: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS? (Colin Law)
>    3. Re: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS? (Sorin Srbu)
>    4. Re: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS? (Ian Bruntlett)
>    5. Re: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS? (Sorin Srbu)
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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:32:47 +0000
> From: Owen Branley <obranley at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?
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> 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!
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> Owen Branley
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> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
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> On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 15:35, Owen Branley <obranley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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!
>
> Try
> sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 15:42:59 +0000
> From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at ki.se>
> To: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?
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> 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.
>
> Try out Zoom now.
> Works?
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> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 16:10:37 +0000
> From: Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
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> On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 15:44, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at ki.se> wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > Try out Zoom now.
> >
>
> What feels like a Long Time Ago, I installed Zoom as a snap on Ubuntu 20.04
> LTS x86_64 running on an old ThinkPad and it behaves fine.
>
> Using the command "snap list" tells me I have zoom-client 5.8.6.739
> installed.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Ian
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 16:15:15 +0000
> From: Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at ki.se>
> To: "ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?
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> On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 16:10 +0000, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Dec 2021 at 15:44, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at ki.se> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Try out Zoom now.
> >
> > What feels like a Long Time Ago, I installed Zoom as a snap on Ubuntu
> > 20.04 LTS x86_64 running on an old ThinkPad and it behaves fine.
> >
> > Using the command "snap list" tells me I have zoom-client 5.8.6.739
> > installed.
> >
>
> Oh, didn't know they had a snap too.
> It is official, right?
>
>
>
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> Sorin Srbu, Serverdrift
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> Karolinska Institutet Universitetsbibliotek
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