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Re: whatsapp on Debian?

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There is BlueStacks, however I think it's only available for Windoze and
OSX, not sure if it will run on Linux.
Maybe you might have a chance to find something similar to it

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> wrote:

> 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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> Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
>
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>


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*Catalin Soare <lolinux.soare@gmail.com>*

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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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