As lots of people confined in these difficult times, I’m working remotely. And here at home, as when I’m at work, I’m using a Linux machine to perform all my tasks. What else ?!!

Among the interactive tools I can use to interact wih my colleagues, there is Skype Enterprise (no luck on LInux, so using just a phone call, painful), HPE My Room (multi-platform with many features and usable on Mageia 7), Microsoft Teams (which is working nicely on Mageia 7 without issue, and you even have source code access under GPLv3 for an unofficial client), and the fully FLOSS Jitsi.

But some of my recent meeting requests were also using zoom. And while there is indeed a Linux client, due to libraries versions incompatibilities, it refuses to install on Linux, and even when forced to, doesn’t launch.

So I had to create a small Fedora:32 container, and with some suitable parameters, zoom is now working in it. To ease it, I have create a small script to launch the stuff:

#!/bin/bash
# Licensed under the GPLv3 
mkdir -p /tmp/docker-fedora
export LUID=`id -u`
cd /tmp/docker-fedora
if [ ! -f zoom_x86_64.rpm ]; then
    wget https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm
fi
RD="/home"
WD="$RD/$USER/prj/fedora/"

cat > Dockerfile << EOF
FROM fedora:32
MAINTAINER bcornec@mageia.org
RUN dnf makecache
RUN dnf -y update || true
COPY zoom_x86_64.rpm /
RUN dnf install -y /zoom_x86_64.rpm
RUN dnf install -y pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils libglvnd-gles
RUN useradd $USER -u $LUID  -N -M -d $RD/$USER
RUN usermod -a -G audio $USER
RUN echo "$USER ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/dnf" >> /etc/sudoers
WORKDIR $WD
USER $USER
CMD zoom
EOF
stat=0
build=0
docker inspect pb:zoombuild 2>&1 > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    if [ "$BASH_ARGV" = "-f" ]; then
        docker rmi pb:zoombuild
         build=1
    fi
else
     build=1
fi
if [ $build -eq 1 ]; then
    docker build --file=Dockerfile -t pb:zoombuild .
    stat=$?
fi
if [ $stat -eq 0 ]; then
    # Priviledge needed for zoom command in ctn
    docker run --device /dev/snd --device /dev/usb --rm -v $RD/$USER:$RD/$USER --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v /run/user/$LUID/pulse/native:/run/pulse/native -e PULSE_SERVER=/run/pulse/native -e PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH -ti pb:zoombuild
fi

Just run that script and you can join a zoom conf call, benefiting from sound at least (I have no webcam to test the video at the moment).

So now, dear mageians no excuse to stay confined without contacts with your colleagues