réjean Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I am starting to panic now. I need zoom to work for my wife by tomorrow for her writing course. It was working in PCLinux and I am trying to install it in Ubuntu. O downloaded a .deb file and here is what is happening; zoom_amd64.deb rejean@rejean-KJ379AA-A2L-a6400f:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install zoom_amd64.deb [sudo] password for rejean: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package zoom_amd64.deb E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'zoom_amd64.deb' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'zoom_amd64.deb' rejean@rejean-KJ379AA-A2L-a6400f:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i zoom_amd64.deb Selecting previously unselected package zoom. (Reading database ... 803513 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack zoom_amd64.deb ... Unpacking zoom (5.4.54779.1115) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zoom: zoom depends on libxcb-xtest0; however: Package libxcb-xtest0 is not installed. dpkg: error processing package zoom (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ... Unknown media type in type 'all/all' Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' Errors were encountered while processing: zoom rejean@rejean-KJ379AA-A2L-a6400f:~/Downloads$ what's happening? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 Ok I fixed it using "$ sudo apt install -f" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 https://linuxhint.com/install_zoom_ubuntu/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) apt is a tool for packages in the repo, but it isn't the tool you want for downloaded deb packages. you either want gdebi (gui) or dpkg (command line). If you prefer a GUI installation method, you'll probably need to install gdebi first: sudo apt install gdebi and then open the zoom.deb with gdebi, which will check dependencies, etc... if all dependencies are satisfied (usually are in an up-to-date distro and a recent package), just click the install button and gdebi handles the rest. If you're comfortable with the command line, dpkg is the tool you want for deb package management, and "-i" is the flag for installation. just open a terminal and type: sudo dpkg -i name_of_zoom_package.deb and watch zoom get installed that way. EDIT: I see you got apt to work with the -f flag. brute force, but if it works, who says that's wrong? LOL! Edited November 25, 2020 by Hedon James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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