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Re: whatsapp on Debian?

From Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: whatsapp on Debian?
Date 2015-10-18 23:20 +0200
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On Sunday 18 October 2015 13:55:06 foster2cbrandon@gmail.com wrote:
> 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

Open https://web.whatsapp.com/
Take a picture of the QR-code from out of WhatsApp on your phone and voilá 
WhatsApp in a (any) browser. But you still need the phone to do that. Don't 
know if that suits your need.
Cheers
Eike

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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
              Re: whatsapp on Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-19 18:20 +0200

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