unable to upgrade zoom on Arch Linux
I’ve got zoom installed on my Arch
box. When I start it, it shows me a window which states on the bottom Version: 3.5.374815.0324
. The problem is, I don’t remember how I got this original version installed. I tried sudo pacman -R zoom
which gives me error: target not found: zoom
, the same with yay -R zoom
. It also does not show up inder zoom -Q
.
I downloaded the latest version from https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-or-updating-Zoom-on-Linux#h_c0913442-0832-428d-aa15-b004b80cfafe and tried to install it with sudo pacman -U zoom_x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
and while it first says:
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) zoom-5.0.399860.0429-1
Total Installed Size: 150.29 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
, after confirmation with Y
I get:
...
zoom: /opt/zoom/zoom.sh exists in filesystem
zoom: /opt/zoom/zoomlinux exists in filesystem
zoom: /opt/zoom/zopen exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/bin/zoom exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/applications/Zoom.desktop exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/mime/packages/zoom.xml exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/pixmaps/Zoom.png exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/pixmaps/application-x-zoom.png exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Hoe do I get these files overwritten and zoom
upgraded to the newer version?
Update
I moved /opt/zoom/ to /opt/zoom~/
and a retried but got:
$ sudo pacman -U zoom_x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) zoom-5.0.399860.0429-1
Total Installed Size: 150.29 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
zoom: /usr/bin/zoom exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/applications/Zoom.desktop exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/mime/packages/zoom.xml exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/pixmaps/Zoom.png exists in filesystem
zoom: /usr/share/pixmaps/application-x-zoom.png exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
upon which I moved each of these files like so:
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/zoom /usr/bin/zoom~
$ sudo mv /usr/share/applications/Zoom.desktop /usr/share/applications/Zoom.desktop~
$ sudo mv /usr/share/mime/packages/zoom.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/zoom.xml~
$ sudo mv /usr/share/pixmaps/Zoom.png /usr/share/pixmaps/Zoom.png~
$ sudo mv /usr/share/pixmaps/application-x-zoom.png /usr/share/pixmaps/application-x-zoom.png~
$ sudo pacman -U zoom_x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
I then reinstalled andit seemed to complete:
...
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [##########################################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [##########################################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing zoom [##########################################################################################] 100%
run post install script, action is 5.0.399860.0429-1...
Error in file "/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kdeconnect_open.desktop": "*/*" is an invalid MIME type ("*" is an unregistered media type)
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/3) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
(3/3) Updating the MIME type database...
but when I then launched zoom, I still got a dialog that reads Version: 3.5.374815.0324
So it didn’t actually upgrade….
or the package doesn’t actually consist a newer version….
One thing you can do is to run:
sudo pacman -U --overwrite '*' zoom_x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
which should cause pacman to overwrite the existing files. However, --overwrite '*'
is not recommended, as it can be dangerous. So, it might be a safer option to just move or delete the existing files/folders manually (since there aren’t too many).
Okay, I deleted the directory & files I had renamed previously and then installed zoom with yay -S zoom
which got me version 5.0.933860.0429