Zoom Update Notifier for Ubuntu

This repo contains some small utilities to notify about new Zoom versions. It assumes

• Zoom is installed manually via the .deb file available from the official Download page.
• Python 3 is available
• apt, curl and notify-send are available

It checks at most once per day if the version returned by the REST API matches the one of the package, and sends a notification when this is not the case.

Installation

• Move / Link ./bin/check_zoom_update.py to somewhere which is in your $PATH, e.g.,

  ln -s ./check_zoom_update.py \
    $HOME/bin/check_zoom_update.py

  You may want to verify that the script is executable

  chmod u+x $HOME/bin/check_zoom_update.py

• (optional) let the script run on every login, by moving/linking the desktop entry:

  ln -s ./zoom_update_check.desktop \
    $HOME/.config/autostart/zoom_update_check.desktop