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Re: debian discover (naturally) lacks permission to install software, how to proceed

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 4:40 PM songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:

> Dan Hitt wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of seeing if i can install a zoom client on my debian
> 10
> > system.
> ...
>
>   this sounds like a really good way to mess up a system.
>
>   google had the answer as the top result.  no idea if it
> works as i don't use such a thing myself.
>
>
> https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-Zoom-on-Linux
>
>  Hi Songbird,

Thanks for your message.

The page you point to is in fact on the site where i downloaded zoom from
(in response to a link on a google calendar entry).

It did have enough information for me to install zoom, with a few
workarounds.  So thanks for providing the link to this page.

The main point is that gdebi needs to be used instead of plasma-discover.
Presumably my system only offered plasma-discover because that's all i had
at the time.  I could not use the directions literally, but was able to
used the command line version of gdebi to get the package installed.

dan

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debian discover (naturally) lacks permission to install software, how  to proceed Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2020-03-20 21:50 +0100
  Re: debian discover (naturally) lacks permission to install  software, how to proceed songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-03-21 00:50 +0100
    Re: debian discover (naturally) lacks permission to install software,  how to proceed Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2020-03-21 03:10 +0100

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