Update ZOOM at xubuntu 20.04 focal fossa

Question

I have been using Xubuntu 20.04 focal fossa for a while and now I am trying to update to the latest Zoom version for Ubuntu. When I click in my Zoom account "update to the latest version" it is unsuccessfully downloaded.

Do I have to uninstall and install again the whole package or is there a chance I can do the update from my terminal?

Thanks a lot! It worked perfectly! – mxr92 Sep 12 '21 at 18:49 — mxr92, Sep 12 '21 at 18:49

Lorenz Keel · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-12T19:51:32.007

You don't need to uninstall it. You can run the following sequence of commands in the terminal:

wget -nv -O "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"/zoom_amd64.deb 'https://us02web.zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb'
sudo dpkg --skip-same-version -i "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"/zoom_amd64.deb
rm -f "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"/zoom_amd64.deb

Description:

The first command download the .deb file in your Download folder.
The second one install it if the new version is different than the current one.
The last command remove the downloaded deb file.

If you want to speed up or periodically check the presence of updates, you can open your ~/.bashrc file (for example, using gedit ~/.bashrc command) and then add the following lines:

# zoom update
if [ -n "$(command -v zoom)" ]; then
  zoom-update() {
    echo "Checking new version availability..."
    wget -nv -O "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"/zoom_amd64.deb 'https://us02web.zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb' &> /dev/null
    sudo dpkg --skip-same-version -i "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"/zoom_amd64.deb
    rm -f "$(xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD)"/zoom_amd64.deb
  }
fi

In this way, you have created a function called zoom-update that performs all the tasks. From this moment, you can simply run the command zoom-update from the terminal.

To make the function work, close and repen the terminal, or run the command source ~/.bashrc

Very helpful, thanks. I suggest that you don't put it in your .bashrc, as it will download the latest .deb package every time you open a new terminal. For myself, I have dropped your series of commands into a script, zoom-update, and added it to my crontab ($ crontab -e), so that it runs nightly. — Douglas Royds, Sep 14 '21 at 02:39
The download command is inside a function, so the it is performed only when the function is called. There isn't any chance to start the download every time you open the terminal :-) — Lorenz Keel, Sep 14 '21 at 06:16

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