I really want to use the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, BUT when i tried to install the Viber, The viber won't work and it says "No Connection" even I have an internet connection:
Hope anyone can help. thank you!
I install this: https://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb
I have been using Viber for Desktop (the official .deb package downloaded from https://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb ) for at least 4 normal Ubuntu versions (18.10 through 20.04) with no problem. A few days ago I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 20.10 and now the /opt/viber/Viber executable crashes on startup with the following message on terminal:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
System log has the following:
Oct 27 19:04:42 xxx kernel: [ 3782.065767] Viber[25573]: segfault at 0 ip 00007ff5e4804bc5 sp 00007fff2e7dc3b0 error 4 in iHD_drv_video.so[7ff5e46eb000+348000]
Oct 27 19:04:42 xxx kernel: [ 3782.065771] Code: 01 48 83 f8 42 75 e6 31 db 66 41 89 9f 58 0c 00 00 49 8b 5f 28 8b 83 f0 1d 00 00 85 c0 0f 84 ba 01 00 00 48 8b b3 e8 1d 00 00 <81> 3e 00 00 01 00 48 89 75 c8 0f 85 a3 01 00 00 44 8d 70 f0 4d 63
A crash dump on system's /var/crash directory is also generated.
I have reinstalled the latest version from Viber's website.
I have deleted the ~/.ViberPC and ~/.cache/Viber Media S.à r.l directories from the home directory, but the problem stays the same.
Any other user having the same problem?
I contacted viber.com. First, they answered by proposing a complete removal and re-install. However, this was something that I have already done. After informing them so, they requested the crash dump, which I sent to them.
Currently Viber for Ubuntu is in version 13.3.1 and has not been updated since July 2020. So, we are stuck to this version until an update is released.
For the time being, the temporary workaround is to retry starting Viber after crash, until it does not crash. It seems that the crash is pretty random, with a chance of 10% of the times Viber starting without a crash. So, I wrote the following Bash function and added it to the end of my ~/.bash_aliases file:
function vib
{
while ! /usr/bin/pgrep -i Viber ; do
nohup /opt/viber/Viber >/tmp/vib.out 2>/tmp/vib.err &
sleep 3
done
}
To start Viber, I simply type vib into a terminal and wait until it starts.
This problem seems to have been solved in Viber version 16.1.0.37:
I'm using Ubuntu 19.04. I'm aware of the question Ubuntu 18.04 Unable to install Viber, but when I try to install via
sudo dpkg -i viber.deb
I get this:
Selecting previously unselected package viber.
(Reading database ... 206700 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack viber.deb ...
Unpacking viber (10.3.0.37) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of viber:
viber depends on libssl1.0.0; however:
Package libssl1.0.0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package viber (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
viber
I have tried the Viber Unofficial snap, but I ran into the huge screen rez and I don't know how to fix that either.
I am trying to get Viber on my new Ubuntu 18.04 but I get these error ...
sudo dpkg -i Downloads/viber.deb
(Reading database ... 138136 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack Downloads/viber.deb ...
Unpacking viber (7.0.0.1035) over (7.0.0.1035) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of viber:
viber depends on libcurl3; however:
Package libcurl3 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package viber (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
viber
For those of you looking for a workaround to make Viber coexist with other apps like Opera and Virtualbox depending on libcurl4 and uninstalling your Viber client, here's a workaround:
Visit Viber website, download the rpm version (Fedora) and convert the rpm package to deb using alien:
sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien --to-deb --scripts viber.rpm
Install the package:
sudo dpkg -i viber_7.0.0.1035-3_amd64.deb
I hope it helps.