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by: pinnerite - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:32 UTC

I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.

Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.

Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!

Help!

I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
about phone apps.

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by: Edmund - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:53 UTC

On 4/24/23 17:32, pinnerite wrote:
> I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
> life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
>
> Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
>
> Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
>
> Help!
>
> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
> about phone apps.

Well you could ask if they install a phone app then you can talk to them.

--
The moment any organization established from pure noble intentions get some influence, it will be corrupted from both inside and outside.
Then we have organizations established from pure evil.

Edmund

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by: Mike Easter - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:58 UTC

pinnerite wrote:
> I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
> life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
>
> Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
>
> Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
>
> Help!
>
> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
> about phone apps.

I don't have any experience w/ whatsapp, but if I were going to install
it on LM, I would use the flatpak not the snap package, because LM
doesn't 'do' snap natively, but it does do flatpak.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux

--
Mike Easter

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by: Mike Easter - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:45 UTC

Mike Easter wrote:
> pinnerite wrote:
>> I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
>> life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
>>
>> Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
>>
>> Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
>> about phone apps.
>
> I don't have any experience w/ whatsapp, but if I were going to install
> it on LM, I would use the flatpak not the snap package, because LM
> doesn't 'do' snap natively, but it does do flatpak.
>
> https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux
>
Well that's somewhat unexpected.

I booted a live LM 21, went to flathub and dl/ed the package, opened the
dir and used the software manager to install the package. That
unexpectedly brought in a whole lot of other stuff, about a gig of dl
and 3G of 'disk space' which on a live is my ram. I didn't like that much.

Then when I launched the app, it said that to use whatsapp on my
computer I needed to link it to my phone by scanning a QR code.

I was expecting to be able to use it w/o a phone.

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by: pinnerite - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:45 UTC

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:58:36 -0700
Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

> pinnerite wrote:
> > I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
> > life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
> >
> > Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
> >
> > Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
> > about phone apps.
>
> I don't have any experience w/ whatsapp, but if I were going to install
> it on LM, I would use the flatpak not the snap package, because LM
> doesn't 'do' snap natively, but it does do flatpak.
>
> https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux
>
> --
> Mike Easter

Thank you but that returned:

error: app/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux/x86_64/master not installed

I am not sure what this is telling me.

Alan

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by: Nic - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:05 UTC

On 4/24/23 12:45, pinnerite wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:58:36 -0700
> Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
>
>> pinnerite wrote:
>>> I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
>>> life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
>>>
>>> Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
>>>
>>> Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
>>> about phone apps.
>> I don't have any experience w/ whatsapp, but if I were going to install
>> it on LM, I would use the flatpak not the snap package, because LM
>> doesn't 'do' snap natively, but it does do flatpak.
>>
>> https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux
>>
>> --
>> Mike Easter
> Thank you but that returned:
>
> error: app/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux/x86_64/master not installed
>
> I am not sure what this is telling me.
>
> Alan
>
>
re:

I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
about phone apps.

Just email your list, every body knows about email.

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by: Mike Easter - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:05 UTC

pinnerite wrote:
> error: app/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux/x86_64/master not installed
>
> I am not sure what this is telling me.

Besides not having any experience w/ whatsapp, I also have almost none
w/ flatpak.

I'm partial to doing things w/ conventional packages.

I was looking around to see if there were alternatives for other linux
distro/s besides Mint; the Manjaro information told me there was a website.

https://web.whatsapp.com/

Without installing anything related to whatsapp, flatpak, snap, or
otherwise, that gives me the same screen that I got after I installed
the bulky flatpak on the live LM 21.

It still requires linking the computer w/ the phone.

More instructions:
https://faq.whatsapp.com/834124628020911/?locale=en_US&cms_platform=web

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by: Mike Easter - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:09 UTC

Mike Easter wrote:
> Without installing anything related to whatsapp, flatpak, snap, or
> otherwise, that gives me the same screen that I got after I installed
> the bulky flatpak on the live LM 21.
>
> It still requires linking the computer w/ the phone.
>
> More instructions:
> https://faq.whatsapp.com/834124628020911/?locale=en_US&cms_platform=web

Aha!

Here's the problem requiring the phone to 'solve':

> Note: The authentication is handled by your device’s operating system
> using the biometrics stored there. WhatsApp can’t access the
> biometric information stored by your device's operating system.

It needs the phone's whatsapp authentication, if I'm understanding this
correctly.

--
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by: Mike Easter - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:14 UTC

Mike Easter wrote:
> if I'm understanding this correctly.

Using myself as an example, here's the roundabout way I would have to
deal w/ this conundrum.

I have a very old dumb flipphone (using some ancient linux OS) w/ a
plan. They call that variety a 'feature' phone instead of very old and
very dumb. I also have a smart phone which does NOT have a plan. I use
it for all kinds of things including being able to 'phone' using wifi
and google phone.

So, I would use my smart phone w/ wifi and install the whatsapp. Then I
would not bother w/ flatpak or snap, but instead I would use the web
version of whatsapp and link it to my smartphone w/ the whatsapp
credentials.

Then I would be able to use the whatsapp w/ my computer via the webapp.

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by: Big Al - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:55 UTC

On 4/24/23 11:32, this is what pinnerite wrote:
> I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
> life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
>
> Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
>
> Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
>
> Help!
>
> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
> about phone apps.
>
>
You could try installing pushbullet on your browser and your phone.
You create an account, I just used google. And with that you can send and receive text/images via SMS on your phone.

You browser communicates with the phone app and the phone app sends the info.
I use it all the time because I can type better on the PC and I can cut and paste items from the PC to the app.

--
Al

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by: pinnerite - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:39 UTC

On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:05:45 -0700
Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:

> pinnerite wrote:
> > error: app/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux/x86_64/master not installed
> >
> > I am not sure what this is telling me.
>
> Besides not having any experience w/ whatsapp, I also have almost none
> w/ flatpak.
>
> I'm partial to doing things w/ conventional packages.
>
> I was looking around to see if there were alternatives for other linux
> distro/s besides Mint; the Manjaro information told me there was a website.
>
> https://web.whatsapp.com/
>
> Without installing anything related to whatsapp, flatpak, snap, or
> otherwise, that gives me the same screen that I got after I installed
> the bulky flatpak on the live LM 21.
>
> It still requires linking the computer w/ the phone.
>
> More instructions:
> https://faq.whatsapp.com/834124628020911/?locale=en_US&cms_platform=web
>
> --
> Mike Easter

Thank you for going to so much trouble.
Problem solved.

Regards, Alan

--
Mint 21.1, kernel 5.15.0-67-generic, Cinnamon 5.6.7
running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of DRAM.

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by: Mike Easter - Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:22 UTC

pinnerite wrote:
> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
> about phone apps.

If all you need to do is send a text via mobile with your computer you
don't /have/ to do it w/ whatsapp, you can just do it w/ a googlevoice
number. Free signup. I send and receive text via GV and my computer w/
full sized screen and keyboard all the time.

But, if you are trying to be 'compliant' w/ your daughters who want to
get the msg in their whatsapp, then you can choose to do it the way we
discussed.

--
Mike Easter

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by: Thebest Teddy - Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:56 UTC

Le 24/04/2023 à 18:45, pinnerite a écrit :
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:58:36 -0700
> Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
>
>> pinnerite wrote:
>>> I had the WhatsApp for Linux package working well on 20.3 but for the
>>> life of me I cannot do so on 21.1.
>>>
>>> Apparently I needed to install snap. To do that i needed gedit.
>>>
>>> Yup. did all that but snap doesn't seem to show up!
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> I only need it to send my shopping list to my daughters who only know
>>> about phone apps.
>>
>> I don't have any experience w/ whatsapp, but if I were going to install
>> it on LM, I would use the flatpak not the snap package, because LM
>> doesn't 'do' snap natively, but it does do flatpak.
>>
>> https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.eneshecan.WhatsAppForLinux
>>
>> --
>
Have you tried to install the git hub package from the source in a
terminal, using a command line ?

git clone https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux
sudo make install

(sudo make install must be run from your whatsapp-for-linux directory)

You can have more information about whatsapp-for-linux in the readme
file at https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux#readme

And this github repo have packages in different versions (AppImage, deb,
snap) ; read more at
https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux/releases

Subject	Author
WhaysApp	pinnerite
Re: WhaysApp	Edmund
Re: WhaysApp	Mike Easter
Re: WhaysApp	Mike Easter
Re: WhaysApp	pinnerite
Re: WhaysApp	Nic
Re: WhaysApp	Mike Easter
Re: WhaysApp	Mike Easter
Re: WhaysApp	Mike Easter
Re: WhaysApp	pinnerite
Re: WhaysApp	Thebest Teddy
Re: WhaysApp	Big Al
Re: WhaysApp	Mike Easter