#Install a deb [resolved]

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wicked panther
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Linux always makes me feel dumb lol

I would have thought that installing a deb package was going to be easy but the instructions I found in Google leave me in an unknown state (see screen shot)

I need to join a zoom meeting (not my choice, Google Meet works perfectly fine). The browser version of zoom couldn't recognise my mic. I thought I'd just try the application zoom instead. After I install and login it tells me that I need to upgrade and takes me to a website where I download the latest Ubunut release. I then can't install it, was there supposed to be an install button somewhere?

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sleek mural
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You could try installing Zoom by Flatpak methods, which I, being this is proprietary, would recommend more.

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But, if web doesn't "detect your mic" that generally means you blocked it from accessing the mic.

wicked panther
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I've now got two problems. I can't figure a way to install Flatpak (apparently sudo apt-get install flatpak is not the right root and my snap manager can't seem to find Flatpak)

sleek mural
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And what distribution are you on?

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(I do NOT ever recommend Ubuntu or more so specifically, Snaps, ever. They are the bane of existence that should not exist)

wicked panther
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I'm a fan of Debian but Ubuntu seems to provide the most compatibility. Unfortunately they push this Snaps nonsense and I'm just along for the ride. My dev environment would probably take me all day to reinstall so I'm stuck with Ubuntu 22.04.4 until I change jobs and I can spend some time researching a new choice.

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Thanks for the help. I think I resolved.

I selected to uninstall then just reinstalled from there. Mic seems to be working in the app opposed to the web browser (chrome) version

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I hope I never have to use Zoom/Teams ever again but I did something terrible in a previous life so now I have Snaps and Zoom here to pay for my sins 😄