réjean Posted November 25, 2020 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
réjean Posted November 25, 2020 Author Posted November 25, 2020 Ok I fixed it using "$ sudo apt install -f" Quote
raymac46 Posted November 25, 2020 Posted November 25, 2020 https://linuxhint.com/install_zoom_ubuntu/ Quote
Hedon James Posted November 25, 2020 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
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