Linux 21.3 & VDH not working

Cliff Spier

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Jan 15, 2024, 2:22:08 PMJan 15

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I upgraded to Linux Mint 21.3 yesterday and VHD does not work, it says to download lastest CompanionApp because mine is really old. I do that and it says it is already installed - I reinstall it anyway. No luck.

I tried the Trouble Shooting tip wrt Flatpak and other than the second line had to be done with sudo that did not work either.

I have uninstalled VHD on Firefox, rebooted, and reinstalled to no avail.

version: 8.1.4.0
beta: false
build date: 2024-01-04
build options: linuxlic: false, noyt: false, browser: firefox
lang: en-US
license: unneeded
platform: x86-64 linux
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0
coapp: no.

Any suggestions to try?

Cliff

Cliff Spier

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Jan 15, 2024, 2:44:00 PMJan 15

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I also tried to download a video on my older Linux Mint laptop v20.x and when the new Companion App 2.0.10 downloaded I could not longer download videos for the same reason originally stated, even after using the Troubleshooting Tips.

Seems like 2.0.10 broke VDH

Cliff

mjs

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Jan 16, 2024, 3:22:28 AMJan 16

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Did you run this in the terminal : /opt/vdhcoapp/vdhcoapp install

Robert Hyatt

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Jan 16, 2024, 6:51:32 AMJan 16

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Thank you very much. I have tried a lot of the suggestions.

This is the one that worked...

Bob Hyatt

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Did you run this in the terminal : /opt/vdhcoapp/vdhcoapp install

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Jan 16, 2024, 9:10:07 AMJan 16

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Cliff Spier

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Jan 16, 2024, 10:43:39 AMJan 16

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That was the trick. Thank you.

On Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 7:10:07 AM UTC-7 jcv...@gmail.com wrote:

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Anon Ymous

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Jan 27, 2024, 12:03:01 AMJan 27

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For myself, running /opt/vdhcoapp/vdhcoapp install didnt work

However this did after downloading the .deb file to Downloads

~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i vdhcoapp-2.0.10-linux-x86_64

Robert Hyatt

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Jan 31, 2024, 2:24:12 AMJan 31

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more...

About a week ago, the downloads stopped working. I said nothing. but I tried, anyway.

3 days later, the downloads worked, again. I did get an O S update for my Ubuntu Linux system. the day before.

Keep in mind I don't recycle my PC very often. A stable system means I can set up downloads of movies, etc overnight, and usually they complete. These downloads are via Transmission... The failures were always with VDh... and Rumble...

As I noted, working, today...

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mjs

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Jan 31, 2024, 4:32:43 AMJan 31

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@ Robert,

There might have been a bug in Ubuntu or the Firefox snap app but they resolved it. Also if you submit your posts via email then

you don't need to address it to me. Before you post, remove other addresses. Use only the google group address for further responses.