Does anyone have this version of Zoom?

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Hello again, so I’m new to using the AUR and did a minor oopsie. I updated the zoom-system-qt package and just left it like that before I went to bed. The following day I thought everything was fine until I launched Zoom. It wouldn’t launch but I could only see the system tray icon. No window appearing, no errors shown if launched via terminal, nothing. I guessed that it was probably the update that caused it and that Zoom wasn’t installed properly. I removed it using yay -R and reinstalled but same result.

This is where the I messed up part comes in. I thought removing the yay cache would help so I removed the zoom-system-qt folder in .cache/yay/ directory. I tried to install again but got the same result. It was only then that I thought of checking the AUR page. It turns out that the new Zoom package has some dependency problems and that behavior was noted by other users. The maintainer has advised to downgrade:

For now, my advice would be not updating to 5.4.54779.1115-1 or, if you already installed the update, downgrading to the previous version 5.4.53391.1108-1, which still works fine for me.

So I did a quick search on how to downgrade a package and it turns out that the older package versions are stored in the now deleted .cache folder. If anyone currently has that version, it would mean a lot if you could send me a copy :sweat_smile::grin:. The web-based Zoom isn’t an option since for some reason, I can’t see videos from other participants when using Firefox.

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Here you go:

going to delete the link as it was on my server

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Thank you so much kind Sir/Ma’am! :heart_eyes:

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Out of curiosity, why do you guys go through the hassle with the intermediary package instead of using the standard AUR package?
I wasn’t aware this package existed so read up on it a bit and the main benefit seems to be saving a few MBs of disk space?

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It’s what AUR gives me:

[duncanm@arch ~]$ yay -Ss zoom
aur/perl-net-z3950-zoom 1.30-2 (+0 0.00) 
    Perl/CPAN Module Net::Z3950::ZOOM: Perl extension for invoking the ZOOM-C API.
aur/ruby-zoom 3.3.0-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Quickly open CLI search results in your favorite editor
aur/go-zoom-bin 0.1.3-1 (+1 0.03) 
    Parallel command executor with a focus on simplicity and good cross-platform behaviour.
aur/zoom-firefox 0.0.3-0 (+1 0.05) 
    .desktop file for running Zoom in Firefox
aur/pix-image-viewer-git 0.2.6.108.g54e4f24-1 (+1 0.04) 
    Desktop image viewer. View thousands of images in a zoomable, pannable grid.
aur/go-zoom 0.1.3-1 (+2 0.00) 
    Parallel command executor with a focus on simplicity and good cross-platform behaviour.
aur/tonelib-zoom-bin 4.3.1-1 (+2 0.56) 
    ToneLib Zoom – change and save all the settings in your Zoom(r) guitar pedal
aur/xgraph-bin 4.30-3 (+2 0.00) 
    XGRAPH is a general purpose x-y data plotter with interactive buttons for panning, zooming, printing, and selecting display options.
aur/gnome-shell-mousewheel-zoom 0.8.0-1 (+2 0.37) 
    Enable mousewheel zoom using left-alt key using gnome-shell
aur/zoom-firejail 0.1.6-1 (+4 0.75) 
    .desktop file for running Zoom in Firejail
aur/terminator-plugins-bgz-rtae-git r5.94964ae-1 (+8 0.00) 
    backgroundzoom & appearanceeditor, plugins for customizing terminator terminal emulator
aur/galapix 0.2.1-3 (+10 0.00) (Orphaned) 
    A zoomable image viewer for large collections of images
aur/elicit 2.2-1 (+13 0.55) 
    A GTK color chooser with zoom.
aur/zoom-system-qt 5.4.54779.1115-1 (+18 2.94) 
    Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service - system Qt libraries
aur/eaglemode 0.95.0-1 (+47 0.18) 
    Visit almost everything in your PC simply by zooming in
aur/xzoom 0.3-6 (+47 0.02) 
    A screen magnifier
aur/sozi 20.05-3 (+73 0.42) 
    A zooming presentation editor and player based on SVG and JavaScript
aur/zoom 5.4.54779.1115-1 (+347 28.27) (Installed)
    Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service
chaotic-aur/zoom 5.4.54779.1115-1 (60.3 MiB 173.8 MiB) (Installed)
    Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service
community/xaos 4.2-1 (497.0 KiB 1.7 MiB) 
    Interactive fractal zoomer
[duncanm@arch ~]$
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Strange. Mine looks slightly different and I got the original zoom option which your list somehow misses.
Item two is what I use:

$ paru -Ss zoom  
community/xaos 4.2-1 [496.99KB 1.69MB]
    Interactive fractal zoomer
aur/zoom 5.4.54779.1115-1 [+347 ~28.27]
    Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service
aur/sozi 20.05-3 [+73 ~0.42]
    A zooming presentation editor and player based on SVG and JavaScript
aur/xzoom 0.3-6 [+47 ~0.02]
    A screen magnifier
…

Edit: And when I run paru (yay) zoom, without the -sS that’s the first one to show up.

paru zoom    
 1 aur/zoom 5.4.54779.1115-1 [+347 ~28.27]
    Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service
 2 community/xaos 4.2-1 [496.99KB 1.69MB]
    Interactive fractal zoomer
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I use zoom-system-qt is because apart from using KDE, the standard zoom package gives me weird scaling issues with the UI and this one fixes it for me.

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