Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?

[Sorin Srbu]

On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 12:43 -0600, Keith wrote:
> 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

Yupp, I usually go for the apt command you write about above, but sometimes
for some reason it doesn't work for certain deb-packages.

The Zoom package has been one of those "difficult" ones for me, which is the
reason I wrote as I did.

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