Cisco Webex Flatpak

Description

Webex is Cisco's unified communication platform. In 2021 they released some packages for a limited range of Linux distributions. Unfortunately, they do not support RHEL versions released in the past year, nor do they support distros other than Ubuntu LTS.

Currently, requests by the community for a Flatpak or snap have gone unheeded.

This project attempts to repackage the Linux package as a Flatpak so that it can be used on any modern Linux distro.

Building

In order to build this package, you will need the following:

1. Follow the Building your first flatpak guide to make sure that you have the required setup on your computer.
2. Clone this repository. Because we are using submodules, you will also want to add and init those submodules. The easiest way to do that is to pass the --recuse-submodules on your git clone command.
3. Make sure that you have the base flatpak installed. You can see which ones are required in the top of the com.cisco.Webex.json file.
4. Run and install your build: flatpak-builder build com.cisco.Webex.json --install --force-clean --user

Known Issues

• Zypak wrapper not work with the Webex forking method. Hopefully, this will be resolved in Zypak soon.
• Cisco does not version their webex packages. This means that periodically, the build will fail due to checksum mismatches, at which point we need to update the checksums, as well as extract the Webex build number from the Debian package and populate that in our scripts.
• Cisco has botched the .desktop spec by placing the release number of Webex in the version key, instead of the intended spec version. (fixed in webex-build.sh).