Whatsapp for Linux

Up until september 2018 there was a nice Whatsapp desktop (electron) application under Linux. Unfortunately this project is abandonned, because of privacy restrictions of Whatsapp (Facebook). But it still can work with a little handwork.

Download of the latest release (5.0): Whatsapp-Desktop-0.5.0.zip

Installation

Unzip the 'zip' file and move the contents to folder:

/opt/whatsapp-desktop

Make the following file within this folder executable:

WhatsApp

Final trick

By default the program does not work anymore, because of Whatsapp's restrictions. Execute the following actions to make it work.

Execute the following steps with the application CLOSED !!!

Step 1.

Edit the file /opt/whatsapp-desktop/resources/app/main.js

change:

whatsApp.window.loadURL('https://web.whatsapp.com');

into:

whatsApp.window.webContents.setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36");
whatsApp.window.loadURL('https://web.whatsapp.com');

Step 2.

Empty the Service Worker

<prompt>$ rm -r "/home/<youruserhomefolder>/.config/whatsapp-desktop/Service Worker"

Don't forget the quotes, otherwise it will not find the Service Worker because of the space!

Step 3.

Execute:

chmod -w "/home/<youruserhomefolder>/.config/whatsapp-desktop/Service Worker/" -R

Finally

Start Whatsapp desktop and pair again.

Thanks to: jpmunix

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Last update: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:32:15