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Re: Problem w/ Zoom 5 on Ubuntu 14.04x LTS

Well, ... when I used Zoom, from Linux, back on SF-LUG's meeting
2020-05-03 ... thought I might've mentioned some of the details on-list
for SF-LUG, but peeking at archive, perhaps/apparently not - I may have
just mentioned it verbally in that Zoom meeting.

Anyway, ran it from Linux, specifically Debian oldstable:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q2/014796.html

Anyway, Zoom "wants" to download and install stuff ... but one needn't
do so (I didn't want it downloading and installing and running stuff
on my computer - I don't trust Zoom that much), it does allow Zoom to
just run within the browser ... that's what I chose to do.
But I found that slightly interesting/challenging.
If I recall correctly (and don't have it backwards), I found it to
not be very stable at all in Chromium when doing so - it would crash
browser tab (or whole browser?) with exceedingly high regularity,
generally short after starting it that way within browsers (and no
downloads).
Then I tried likewise in Firefox ... "of course" too, in Firefox, it wanted
to download and install stuff ... but nope, I didn't want to do
that.  But, annoyingly, in Firefox, it didn't give me the link to run
it in Firefox.  So ...
I just copied the link - to run within browser, from Chromium,
then pasted that into browser tab on Firefox ... and that worked,
and it ran and was (meta?-)stable in Firefox (may have crashed moderate
number of times, but way less than with Chromium) ... it was at least
stable-ish enough to be fairy to quite usable.

Also, as now quite become my practice for all this shelter-in-place
work-from-home(/remote) stuff, for remote web conferencing stuff,
I use phone, rather than computer, for audio.  Not only generally
much lower latency, but much more reliable ... phone generally doesn't
have the drop-outs, freezes, crashes, etc. - or grind to a total stop
if $work's VPN or proxy(/ies) have hiccup or latency or whatever.
Also handy to still be on the phone to be able to say if/as/when
appropriate "Oh, sorry, lost web/video ..." - if you also lose the
audio at the same time (and may take a while to reconnect), folks just
may not know, or may not know right away.

Also, again, same platform, used Jitsi, in BerkeleyLUG's last meeting
on 2020-05-10.  I found Jitsi to be significantly more stable than
Zoom - at least on said Linux platform.


From: "'Christian Peeples' via BerkeleyLUG" <berkeleylug@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Problem w/ Zoom 5 on Ubuntu 14.04x LTS
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 17:41:58 +0000 (UTC)



 Aaron:
When I try to upgrade to Zoom 5, I get an error message with the following detail: 

"Lintian check results for /tmp/mozilla_hecp0/zoom_amd64.deb:
no entry control.tar.gz in archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
It gives me the choice to install anyway, but I don't want to do that if it will break Ubuntu. I only have the free version of Zoom, so I can't set up a ticket with their support center -- fair enough, you can't expect personal service on a free product. 

-- Chris Peeples --
On Thursday, May 21, 2020, 07:45:14 AM PDT, goossbears <acohen36@gmail.com> wrote: 


Topic was Re: Next meeting this Sunday May 24th (virtual) 11am to ?
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:37 PM 'Christian Peeples' via BerkeleyLUG <berkeleylug@googlegroups.com> wrote:
P.s.  Do any of you understand why Ubuntu 14:4 LTS has a problem w/Zoom 5 (AC Transit uses Zoom, have not been able to get them to use open source).  Chris and/or others,The current Zoom 5 documentation and announcements portal is at URL https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/zoom-v5-0.htmlCould you describe the exact problem(s) w/Zoom 5 on Ubuntu 14.04.x LTS?-Aaron 

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