# FYI: new zoom-5.7.28991.0726-1.x86_64.rpm downloaded from
# https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey and
# https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm

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On 8/1/21 12:29 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
> # FYI: new zoom-5.7.28991.0726-1.x86_64.rpm downloaded from
> # https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey and
> # https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm
>
>
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> If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
>
Another one?

I installed zoom once, so I could observe a local public meeting.
Haven't had a need for it since, so I haven't updated. Will do so if I
need it again, but with all these notices I'm wondering...

Which is updated more often - zoom or firefox?

TJ

Bit Twister wrote on 2/8/21 2:29 am:
> # FYI: new zoom-5.7.28991.0726-1.x86_64.rpm downloaded from
> # https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey and
> # https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm
>
>
> --
> The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
> If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
>
BT, as I often see you posting these updates about Zoom, perhaps you can
answer a question for me .....

At times, and more-so in these CoViD-19 lock-down days, various members
of my family organise Family Zoom sessions via FaceBook.

I refuse to log on to FaceBook ... got enough to do with my life without
having to continually check to see if someone has FaceBooked me OR NOT!!

But, I've wondered .... if I install Zoom on my computer, can I connect
into these group Zoom calls, sort of natively .... Or can I only do it
via FaceBook??
--
Daniel

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:11:30 +1000, Daniel65 wrote:
> Bit Twister wrote on 2/8/21 2:29 am:
>> # FYI: new zoom-5.7.28991.0726-1.x86_64.rpm downloaded from
>> # https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey and
>> # https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>
> But, I've wondered .... if I install Zoom on my computer, can I connect
> into these group Zoom calls, sort of natively .... Or can I only do it
> via FaceBook??

If you log in to/look around on the zoom site you might learn that
you create a meeting and email the meeting time/date/id to people you
would like to have attend the meeting.

Those people enter the meeting url into a browser like firefox which
uses the zoom software to connect the usrer's hardware, camera/audio/video
to the other users at the meeting.

On 2021-08-13, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:11:30 +1000, Daniel65 wrote:
>> Bit Twister wrote on 2/8/21 2:29 am:
>>> # FYI: new zoom-5.7.28991.0726-1.x86_64.rpm downloaded from
>>> # https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey and
>>> # https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>>
>>
>> But, I've wondered .... if I install Zoom on my computer, can I connect
>> into these group Zoom calls, sort of natively .... Or can I only do it
>> via FaceBook??

There are a number of ways of connecting. One is described by Bit below.
Note that if you want to join someone else's meeting you need to get the
zoom meeting number from them and the password (if they ar using one)
from them. Or you get the url from them. If you want to host a meeting,
then you need to log in to zoom, using your zoom password which you set
up when you set up zoom, and then either set up a new meeting, or use
your own Personal Meeting ID, and distribute the meeting id to the
people you want to have a meeting with, and the password, if you set up
the meeting with a password.

You install zoom, which also installs an icon on your desktop. You can
join a meeting either by the url, or by the meeting ID/ meeting password

Note that zoom had NOTHING to do with Facebook, or with Google, or with
Microsoft,.... You can use a browser to join your meeting but that just
starts up, using xdg, the zoom program, or you can start it directly
using the zoom icon, or you can start it using the command line
/opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.

>
>
> If you log in to/look around on the zoom site you might learn that
> you create a meeting and email the meeting time/date/id to people you
> would like to have attend the meeting.
>
> Those people enter the meeting url into a browser like firefox which
> uses the zoom software to connect the usrer's hardware, camera/audio/video
> to the other users at the meeting.
>

On 8/13/21 1:39 AM, William Unruh wrote:
> Note that zoom had NOTHING to do with Facebook, or with Google, or with
> Microsoft,.... You can use a browser to join your meeting but that just
> starts up, using xdg, the zoom program, or you can start it directly
> using the zoom icon, or you can start it using the command line
> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.

The one meeting I attended via zoom was an informational meeting of our
local town board with an event promoter. The meeting was announced on
Facebook, but all they provided was a link to attend. It was months ago,
but as I recall I used the icon to launch.

TJ

TJ wrote on 13/08/2021 10:09 pm:
> On 8/13/21 1:39 AM, William Unruh wrote:
>> Note that zoom had NOTHING to do with Facebook, or with Google, or with
>> Microsoft,.... You can use a browser to join your meeting but that just
>> starts up, using xdg, the zoom program, or you can start it directly
>> using the zoom icon, or you can start it using the command line
>> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.
>
> The one meeting I attended via zoom was an informational meeting of our
> local town board with an event promoter. The meeting was announced on
> Facebook, but all they provided was a link to attend. It was months ago,
> but as I recall I used the icon to launch.
>
> TJ
You used the icon to launch ....... and it was all done outside of
FaceBook, apart from the Announcement.

Good, that sounds like what I'm after ... as long as someone forwards me
the link to click to attend.

Thanks, guys!
--
Daniel

On 15/8/21 8:04 pm, Daniel65 wrote:
> TJ wrote on 13/08/2021 10:09 pm:
>> On 8/13/21 1:39 AM, William Unruh wrote:
>>> Note that zoom had NOTHING to do with Facebook, or with Google, or with
>>> Microsoft,.... You can use a browser to join your meeting but that just
>>> starts up, using xdg, the zoom program, or you can start it directly
>>> using the zoom icon, or you can start it using the command line
>>> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.
>>
>> The one meeting I attended via zoom was an informational meeting of
>> our local town board with an event promoter. The meeting was announced
>> on Facebook, but all they provided was a link to attend. It was months
>> ago, but as I recall I used the icon to launch.
>>
>> TJ
> You used the icon to launch ....... and it was all done outside of
> FaceBook, apart from the Announcement.
>
> Good, that sounds like what I'm after ... as long as someone forwards me
> the link to click to attend.
>
> Thanks, guys!
I have one coming up tomorrow night. Since I cannot attach the email, I
will set out the usual invitation here:
-o0o-
Bendigo Amateur Radio & Electronics Club is inviting you to a scheduled
Zoom meeting.

Topic: 'Show us your Shack' with Don, VK3PDB
Time: Sep 7, 2021 07:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83613477741?pwd=ZitQb2Fhb0ZOdG90dEUxSkVkWEtvUT09

Meeting ID: 836 1347 7741
Passcode: 683519
-o0o-[

It is the responsibility of the person setting up the meeting to
organize the emails, but it is your responsibility to register with
Zoom, so that you will receive them. The Web URL is a normal hyperlink,
and clicking on the URL will open Zoom. If it can't it will invite you
to download Zoom.

Within Zoom, you can schedule your next meeting, and the date will be
put into your default system calendar. If you need help, there are
videos on the Zoom website in the invitation. I don't run Facebook, but
it must send URLs to your browser, just like an email client.

I came to this thread for a different reason. All the RPMs I download
have the same name. The repo's key ends in .pub, and my system thinks
that it is a Microsoft Publisher file. Bit Twister must be getting his
from a different source. Presumably the file from Fedora will work now?

Doug.

Doug Laidlaw wrote on 6/9/21 9:03 pm:
> On 15/8/21 8:04 pm, Daniel65 wrote:
>> TJ wrote on 13/08/2021 10:09 pm:
>>> On 8/13/21 1:39 AM, William Unruh wrote:
>>>> Note that zoom had NOTHING to do with Facebook, or with Google, or with
>>>> Microsoft,.... You can use a browser to join your meeting but that just
>>>> starts up, using xdg, the zoom program, or you can start it directly
>>>> using the zoom icon, or you can start it using the command line
>>>> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.
>>>
>>> The one meeting I attended via zoom was an informational meeting of
>>> our local town board with an event promoter. The meeting was
>>> announced on Facebook, but all they provided was a link to attend. It
>>> was months ago, but as I recall I used the icon to launch.
>>>
>>> TJ
>> You used the icon to launch ....... and it was all done outside of
>> FaceBook, apart from the Announcement.
>>
>> Good, that sounds like what I'm after ... as long as someone forwards
>> me the link to click to attend.
>>
>> Thanks, guys!
> I have one coming up tomorrow night.  Since I cannot attach the email, I
> will set out the usual invitation here:
>         -o0o-
> Bendigo Amateur Radio & Electronics Club is inviting you to a scheduled
> Zoom meeting.
>
> Topic: 'Show us your Shack' with Don, VK3PDB
> Time: Sep 7, 2021 07:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
>
> Join Zoom Meeting
> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83613477741?pwd=ZitQb2Fhb0ZOdG90dEUxSkVkWEtvUT09
>
> Meeting ID: 836 1347 7741
> Passcode: 683519
>         -o0o-[
>
> It is the responsibility of the person setting up the meeting to
> organize the emails, but it is your responsibility to register with
> Zoom, so that you will receive them.  The Web URL is a normal hyperlink,
> and clicking on the URL will open Zoom.  If it can't it will invite you
> to download Zoom.
>
> Within Zoom, you can schedule your next meeting, and the date will be
> put into your default system calendar.  If you need help, there are
> videos on the Zoom website in the invitation.  I don't run Facebook, but
> it must send URLs to your browser, just like an email client.
>
> I came to this thread for a different reason.  All the RPMs I download
> have the same name.  The repo's key ends in .pub, and my system thinks
> that it is a Microsoft Publisher file.  Bit Twister must be getting his
> from a different source.  Presumably the file from Fedora will work now?
>
> Doug.

Thanks for that info, Doug. So I don't need a Facebook account .... but
do need a Zoom account. I suppose that is fare---ish!!

"Amateur Radio & Electronics"! Never much into Amateur Radio &
Electronics as Radio and Electronics was my Day-time job .... even when
I was doing it at night (i.e. rotating Shift Rosters!!)
--
Daniel

On Mon, 6 Sep 2021 21:03:07 +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>
> I came to this thread for a different reason. All the RPMs I download
> have the same name.

Sounds right

> The repo's key ends in .pub, and my system thinks
> that it is a Microsoft Publisher file.

Sounds like some gui App "feature"

> Bit Twister must be getting his from a different source.

Nope. My script uses the given location and name via wget to download rpms
and rpm to get version.

On 6/9/21 9:30 pm, Daniel65 wrote:

> Thanks for that info, Doug. So I don't need a Facebook account .... but
> do need a Zoom account. I suppose that is fare---ish!!
>
> "Amateur Radio & Electronics"! Never much into Amateur Radio &
> Electronics as Radio and Electronics was my Day-time job .... even when
> I was doing it at night (i.e. rotating Shift Rosters!!)

I can appreciate that attitude. I was in electronic service for 30 years
and I am in no rush to see either end of a soldering iron again.

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Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso

On 6/9/21 9:30 pm, Daniel65 wrote:
> Thanks for that info, Doug. So I don't need a Facebook account .... but
> do need a Zoom account. I suppose that is fare---ish!!
>
> "Amateur Radio & Electronics"! Never much into Amateur Radio &
> Electronics as Radio and Electronics was my Day-time job .... even when
> I was doing it at night (i.e. rotating Shift Rosters!!)
> --
> Daniel

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