| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/zoom.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | zoom |
| Description: | Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service |
| Upstream URL: | https://zoom.us/ |
| Keywords: | call conference meeting video |
| Licenses: | LicenseRef-zoom |
| Replaces: | zoom-libs, zoom-libs-bin |
| Submitter: | edh |
| Maintainer: | edh (gromit) |
| Last Packager: | edh |
| Votes: | 730 |
| Popularity: | 7.78 |
| First Submitted: | 2015-08-15 13:18 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-03-26 02:00 (UTC) |
@oech3 I now understand what you wanted to ask before. I do not think this package should be merged with zoom-system-qt. Please revert these changes. This package should be as simple as possible. Feel free to maintain a separate package that depends on system libraries but I think patching the proprietary zoom package this way is out of scope for this package.
Let’s take any further discussion of the comment section. Please reach out via mail (see profile).
This PKGBUILD went from being quite simple to understand to quite complex.
Was this to save some hundreds of MB of installed size? Or more for the security implications of using system libraries instead of bundled ones?
In any case, unless it was somewhat necessary, I think this is not very KISS and that the "copy to /opt" approach for packaging a proprietary app should be preferred unless there's a quite good reason against it.
OK. Moved it to depends since it is very small package.
It is not even optional on hosts running X11/Xorg, but it is NECESSARY for hosts running Zoom on the the X Window System display server. That accounts for very very many hosts (the exact proportion is unknown to me at this point) running Arch linux. For that reason it might be a good idea to take it into account and include it in your AUR Zoom bundle. At the very least, it might be worth a mention. Tx.
qt5-x11extras is optional on Wayland. zoom-libs-bin (from upstream) has it.
Latest update to zoom 6.5.11-2 on an up to date Arch linux system (6.16.5-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC) resulted in /usr/bin/zoom not launching any longer. Zoom fails to launch quietly. It's early to know why, but my first troubleshooting move was:
> strace -f -o zoom.strace zoom
From the trace it looks like Zoom fails here:
error while loading shared libraries: libQt5X11Extras.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Arch Linux dropped qt5-x11extras after the Qt5 -> Qt6 transition, but Zoom (binary-only) still links against it.
So after I did # pacman -Syu, the library vanished and Zoom can’t launch.
The fix consists in re-installing the missing Arch system objects, with:
> sudo pacman -S qt5-x11extras
HTH
yes
@oech3 Sorry, I don't fully understand what you are writing. Would you like to be added as co-maintainer?
@edh Thankyou for replying. I will keep zoom's packaging at one of pkgbase if I was added.
@oech3
TBH I dislike that zoom just bundles everything with the package and I do see the appeal of zoom-system-qt.
However, I do not wish to mess too much with a proprietary software and opted for the simpler route for this package. I think zoom-system-qt is a very cool package but personally I wouldn't want to put in the effort to clean up something where I have that little control over the source. In which capacity you want to fix the dependency mess in zoom and "compete" with this package is, of course, completely up to you :)
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erbrecht commented on 2024-11-19 13:06 (UTC)
@Rhinoceros - I finally got screen sharing to work under KDE with Wayland. Looks like I'm using the same versions as you:
I followed the Screen share section on the Zoom wiki page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zoom_Meetings
The only thing I didn't need to do was set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=gnome. I followed the other steps, and now I can choose my desktop/window to share. Prior to following the wiki I couldn't stop screen sharing without the hanging issue, which I was experiencing prior to 6.2.10.
edh commented on 2016-08-26 11:03 (UTC) (edited on 2017-03-09 10:48 (UTC) by edh)