11 responses to Install WhatsApp Client (Unofficial) in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04

1. 

   Anil Sharma October 31, 2015 at 7:32 pm

   Installed it on Ubuntu 14.04 via software centre. It worked fine first. But when relaunched, it doesn’t work. Just get WhatsApp web which doesn’t close. I use Google Chrome, so clicked on it and it started downloading Chrome, which I already have.
   Please help
   • 

     Palo November 23, 2015 at 10:07 am

     Hi,

     try this:
     stop whatsapp client, then
     rm -rf ~/.config/UnofficialWhatsApp
     and start it
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     Alex January 10, 2016 at 1:06 pm

     Hey, i’ve written a little script, to fix the “relaunch-issue”
     It’s basically pretty simple…. just create a bash script named “whatsappfordesktop” including the following lines.
     _____________________________________

     #!/bin/bash
     cd ~/.config/UnofficialWhatsApp/
     rm -r Application\ Cache
     cd ~/.config/UnofficialWhatsApp/
     rm -r Cache

     whatsappfordesktop
     disown

     ____________________________________
     After that simply change the path of the Unofficial WhatsApp desktop icon to the shell-script path.

     Thats it! ;)
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       Nikhil Bhalwankar May 15, 2016 at 6:57 pm

       Hi Alex,

       Thanks for the great application. I have started using it on my laptop runnign Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus 32 Bit. I have created the script and now running the script to start whatsapp for desktop !!!
     • 

       sarathantony September 3, 2016 at 3:13 pm

       It was so helpful. But the question is how to change the application path…
       We’re newbies.. remember….
2. 

   shailendra November 29, 2015 at 4:35 am

   Hi
   I am using ubuntu 12.04 lts on my laptop and want to install whatsapp on it.

   sudo apt-get install pidgin – complete
   cd / usr / lib / pidgin /
   sudo wget ‘http://davidgf.net/nightly/whatsapp-purple/386/last-whatsapp.so’

   the mv command gave permission denied
   mv last-whatsapp.so whatsapp.so
   please help

   also
   shailendrajt@shailendra-Neelpc:~$ wget ‘https://github.com/shirioko/WART/raw/master/WART-1.6.3.0.exe’
   –2015-11-29 10:00:59– ‘https://github.com/shirioko/WART/raw/master/WART-1.6.3.0.exe’
   Resolving github.com (github.com)… 192.30.252.130
   Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.252.130|:443… connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
   2015-11-29 10:01:00 ERROR 404: Not Found.
   please hlp
3. 

   Angelo January 18, 2016 at 3:11 pm

   the fix for the problem mentioned is as following:
   1) log in to your whatsapp
   -once logged go to:
   /.config/UnofficialWhatsApp/”Application Cache”
   -close the app
   -remove “index” file
   -then change permission for “Application Cache” from the terminal:
   sudo chmod 000 “Application Cache”

   I have tried the bash script suggested by Alex, but I am a human being and I could not make it to work based on the instructions on his post. This is a fix I found on GitHub page: https://github.com/Aluxian/WhatsApp-Desktop/issues/42.
   The date is 4 September 2015.

   I have tried it and it works great!!
   • 

     Alex January 20, 2016 at 5:22 pm

     Hey Angelo,

     forgot to mention that you have to make the script executable and change rights to 777…
     maybe this is why it’s not working for you.
     sorry for that.

     for me it works perfectly…. i’ve done this modification to 3 pc’s by now… everyone works just fine.
4. 

   TehRoyce May 22, 2016 at 2:23 pm

   hi I have installed this whatsapp but now i want to remove it, how i can do it?
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     shuaib July 11, 2016 at 1:04 pm

     sudo dpkg -r whatsappfordesktop
5. 

   shuaib July 11, 2016 at 12:55 pm

   i am new ubuntu user . when we start unofficial whatsup app than we get error
   Failed to load resource: net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR please help me for that