{"id":5046,"date":"2015-06-23T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2015-06-23T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:44:04","slug":"whatsapp-client-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-client-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install WhatsApp Client (Unofficial) in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-icon.png\" alt=\"whatsapp-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple and beautiful WhatsApp desktop client has been created recently, available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. It&#8217;s an open-source and <b>unofficial<\/b> client based on WhatsApp Web.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the basic WhatsApp features (e.g., group chats, send photos &#038; videos, and share locations), this unofficial WhatsApp for desktop also features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Badge with the number of notifications in the dock\/taskbar (OS X and Windows)<\/li>\n<li>Auto-launch on OS startup (OS X, Windows)<\/li>\n<li>Native notifications (all platforms)<\/li>\n<li>System tray icon (OS X, Windows)<\/li>\n<li>Open links in browser or new window<\/li>\n<li>Preferences in the right-click context menu (or menu bar for OS X, tray menu for Windows)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_5048\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-for-desktop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5048\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-for-desktop-600x225.jpg\" alt=\"unofficial whatsapp on all platforms\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-for-desktop-600x225.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-for-desktop-450x168.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/whatsapp-for-desktop.jpg 1492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">unofficial whatsapp client on all platforms<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Install WhatsApp for Desktop in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Before installing this software, you may first read the following DISCLAIMER from its project page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This project does not attempt to reverse engineer the WhatsApp API or attempt to reimplement any part of the WhatsApp client. Any communication between the user and WhatsApp servers is handled by WhatsApp Web itself; this is just a native wrapper for WhatsApp Web, more akin to a browser than any WhatsApp software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To install it, select download <b>linux32.deb<\/b> or <b>linux64.deb<\/b> that matches your os type (32-bit or 64-bit) from the link below and then click install via Software Center or Gdebi package installer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Aluxian\/WhatsApp-Desktop\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp for Desktop release page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For issues and other information, refers to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Aluxian\/WhatsApp-Desktop\" target=\"_blank\">github page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple and beautiful WhatsApp desktop client has been created recently, available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. It&#8217;s an open-source and unofficial client based on WhatsApp Web. Besides the basic WhatsApp features (e.g., group chats, send photos &#038; videos, and share locations), this unofficial WhatsApp for desktop also features: Badge with the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1285],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-whatsapp-client"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}