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Episode: 3313
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Title: HPR3313: Zoom Update
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3313/hpr3313.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 20:37:12
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This is hacker public radio episode 3,313 for Wednesday, the 14th of April 2021.
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Tid's show is entitled Zoom Update and is part of the series social media it is hosted by Toget
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and is about two minutes long and carries an explicit flag. The summary is scripted Zoom
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Toget again. Hey, I've been using Zoom a lot lately and like many people and the one
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problem I have with it on Linux is that there is no way of automatically updating it.
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You have to download a new version from the site every time and then install it and it's
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just a pain to constantly do that all the time and keep track of it. I like to have things automated
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where I don't have to manage it. Well, since Zoom does not provide a standard Fedora repo for
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updating, to a grid around it I wrote a little script that takes and it hits the Zoom site,
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checks to see if there is an updated version, if so it'll download it and install it automatically
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and then it'll take a keep version history so you can see all the different packages as it comes
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down. I've got the code in my GitHub repo which the link is in the show notes so all you have to do
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is you simply put the script in. It has to be run as a cron job under root or you can run it manually
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if you want but I like the cron job because I don't have to worry about it and then let it just run.
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It will download and with the cron job I have it set up, I have it check every night,
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round midnight to see if it's current one and then download and put it in. What they have
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it terminating the current running instance of Zoom every time before it installs it but I don't
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start it back up and the reason I don't start it up is because then I don't have to deal with
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checking whether I've got a logged in session and all this other stuff and figuring out which
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user and which GUI interface to log it into. So it just terminates it, updates it if there's a change.
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So when I log into my machine in the morning, if it's not running I just simply launch a Zoom
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and I'll always have the latest version of it. So nice and simple, straightforward, give it a try,
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let me know what you think, I'll have a link to the page with the instructions
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and the get repo in the show notes. Thanks, bye.
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