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

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goossbears

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May 21, 2020, 10:45:10 AM5/21/20
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 9:37 PM 'Christian Peeples' via BerkeleyLUG <berke...@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.html
Could you describe the exact problem(s) w/Zoom 5 on Ubuntu 14.04.x LTS?
-Aaron

Christian Peeples

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May 21, 2020, 1:42:05 PM5/21/20
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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 --


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May 21, 2020, 6:53:23 PM5/21/20
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On Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 10:42:05 AM UTC-7, Chris Peeples wrote:
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 --

Also don't have an answer (like Tom L), but the Zoom Download Center's Zoom Client for Linux and Zoom Extension for Browsers is at https://zoom.us/download , so you (Chris) could try again to correctly download and install the latest zoom_amd64.deb for Ubuntu 14.04+ (version 5.0.408598.0517 as of this very writing).
If these steps again fail to correctly install the Zoom Client, then based upon the above, at least the following leading-links may yield some initial answers to what may be the problem....
-A

tom r lopes

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May 21, 2020, 7:19:38 PM5/21/20
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Web search on the error string suggests it is dpkg using the wrong archive format. 

Maybe you should see if dpkg had an update. 

Thomas

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Christian Peeples

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May 22, 2020, 2:18:36 AM5/22/20
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Aaron:

Thanks. I'll try that.

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Christian Peeples

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May 22, 2020, 2:19:33 AM5/22/20
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Tom:

Thanks.

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Michael Paoli

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May 22, 2020, 5:09:44 AM5/22/20
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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" <berke...@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
> <acoh...@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
> <berke...@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
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