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Re: whatsapp on Debian?

From foster2cbrandon@gmail.com
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: whatsapp on Debian?
Date 2015-10-18 20:20 +0200
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Hello,

If you check out WhatsApp's website, or the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp 
The only supported operating systems are on phones. Since it's a mobile phone app, I would guess there is no PC port of this.

> On Oct 18, 2015, at 12:36, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On 17/10/2015 9:52 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>> I've found several how-to's about installing whatsapp on Linux and
>>> Debian but none of them was useful to me.  Anyone out there who was
>>> successful with the issue and can report how to do?
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you need, but the secure messaging part (when it is
>> done right) is being handled with code from the TextSecure project.
>> If that is what you are after, then you might want to consider looking
>> at that project -- Android TextSecure / Red Phone .... iOS Signal is
>> the equivalent, but in one app.  The Android apps are expected to
>> become one app too, but not sure when.
>> 
>> https://whispersystems.org/
>> 
>> The apps on github:
>> https://github.com/whispersystems/
> 
> 
> Thanks.  But, as far as I understand, that's not for PCs, only for phones...
> What I want is instead to use whatsapp from my PC.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rodolfo
> 

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whatsapp on Debian? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 13:00 +0200
  Re: whatsapp on Debian? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-17 14:10 +0200
    Re: whatsapp on Debian? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 18:40 +0200
      Re: whatsapp on Debian? foster2cbrandon@gmail.com - 2015-10-18 20:20 +0200
        Re: whatsapp on Debian? Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2015-10-18 23:20 +0200
          Re: whatsapp on Debian? Catalin Soare <lolinux.soare@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 10:30 +0200
            Re: whatsapp on Debian? Maik Singer <singmai@arcor.de> - 2015-10-19 13:50 +0200
              Re: whatsapp on Debian? Maik Singer <singmai@arcor.de> - 2015-10-20 22:20 +0200
            Re: whatsapp on Debian? Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2015-10-19 14:10 +0200
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