Video codecs for 20.04 LTS?

[Sorin Srbu]

On Wed, 2021-12-08 at 09:04 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 06:46:40 +0000, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-12-07 at 12:43 -0600, Keith wrote:
> > > On 12/7/21 9:42 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:  
> > > > 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. 
> > > 
> > > $ sudo apt install ./<package name>.deb
> > > 
> > > should do the trick.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> You are much likely confusing  apt-get  with  apt or you used  apt
> trying to install a local package, without running  apt update first,
> but before running  apt  after  dpkg  you did run  apt update .
> 
> Actually when  apt  wasn't available and  apt-get  used instead, using
> gdebi  was the better solution. Nowadays  apt  does the trick. It's
> impossible that  dpkg -i  +  apt install -f  to install a local package
> works, if  apt install  only doesn't work.
> 
> apt  is not  apt-get !

I can only speak for myself.

After installing Zoom for the first time at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, dpkg -i zoompackage.deb gave me a few errors about missing packages.

Running apt install -f after, downloaded and installed a couple of video plugins or some such, IIRC.
After running dpkg -i zoompackage.deb again, I didn't see the errors and the
Zoom client started nicely after.

Actually, I think it may have been this article I referred to at the time.
In april 2020 I knew nothing about video meetings, so looked for info about
it.
https://kifarunix.com/install-zoom-client-on-ubuntu-20-04/

I guess YMMV.


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