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Viber cask works fine, but app itself is broken #6181
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This should be reported to Viber so they can fix that broken .dmg. |
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EDITED!
The issue with the first installer is that it has link to a server which is probably development server (vb-builds.viberlab.com) and I guess it only has some internal DNS record, since public one does not exists. Removing that link, solves the issue, and installer works as intended. I just did some testing, including downloading some older .dmg files from archive.org. Each one of them only installs small app of around 4MB, which is bascally the installer. This app will downlaods the latest app for the user architecture. It is totally unimportant which one you install, you will always get the same app in the end v25.3.0. If you have ARM mac, you will get ARM version whatever installer you used. Current https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac_arm/Viber.dmg installs: As you can see, this is dual arch app. Current https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/Viber.dmg installs: As you can see, this is dual arch app as well. Current https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/online/Viber.dmg installs: And this one is dual arch. In the end (after plist change) with https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac_arm/Viber.dmg you will get: In the end (also after plist change) with https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/Viber.dmg you will get: And as expected, with https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/online/Viber.dmg (as it is) you will get: Since all of those are dual arch installers, with gives exactly the same result, I do not see any benefit of this So, even I agree with you that .dmg does not work correctly, I do not think that is proper way to solve this issue. The installer from the official link from Download page works without any issue. |
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@p-linnane I will respect any maintainer decision, but I have no intention to try to contact Viber support myself. This decision is not related to Homebrew, you or any of great people involved in this project. This is caused by my personal frustration triggered by the useless level 1 support of almost any messenger and social media app in general, during the last 20 years. Please read this and if you do not agree with next points, simply close this as answered. All 3 links returns the same version with the live check: ❯ brew livecheck viber
viber: 24.7.0,2470 ==> 1.0.0.82,2154Using any of those 3 links, will result in installing dual arch installer app, and not the actual Viber app. First 2 apps has faulty plist item, but after removing those items, all 3 installers will download and install exactly the same Viber app for correct arch. Since I do not see any benefit of using current version of this cask, I would suggest this instead cask "viber" do
version "1.0.0.82,2154"
sha256 :no_check
url "https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/online/Viber.dmg"
name "Viber"
desc "Calling and messaging application focusing on security"
homepage "https://www.viber.com/"
livecheck do
url :url
strategy :extract_plist
end
auto_updates true
depends_on macos: ">= :big_sur"
app "Viber.app"
zap trash: [
"~/Library/Application Scripts/com.viber.osx.macvibershare",
"~/Library/Application Support/com.viber.osx",
"~/Library/Application Support/ViberPC",
"~/Library/Caches/com.viber.osx",
"~/Library/Caches/Viber Media S.à r.l",
"~/Library/Containers/com.viber.osx.macvibershare",
"~/Library/Preferences/com.viber.*.plist",
"~/Library/Saved Application State/com.viber.osx.savedState",
],
rmdir: "~/Documents/ViberDownloads"
end |
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Can you please make a PR as you already have a working code? |
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I can make a PR, but I am afraid that it will be rejected, since no one from Homebrew team supported this suggestion so far. I will do it when I find some time. I am not sure how we can do livecheck, since all 3 apps returns "1.0.0.82,2154" with plist method. That is Viber installer version, not the actual Viber version. |
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well, current cask is broken anyway.. |
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Output of
brew configOutput of
brew doctorDescription of issue
Cask works fine, but something is very wrong with the current version of https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac_arm/Viber.dmg
When you launch Viber user gets this message:
Download unsuccesstul
Here's what you can do:
• Click 'Retry' to restart the download process
• Download the app using a different link
• Contact Support for help
I think the issue is the link app is trying to open from there, it is probably unavailable.
I experienced exactly the same problem when I uninstalled the cask and install app from that DMG.
App from the dmg on the download page https://download.viber.com/desktop/mac/online/Viber.dmg works without any issues.
It would probably be good to change the link in the Cask.
I noticed the issue only because I updated everything with
brew upgrade --greedy, otherwise I will have no clue that this issue exists.I just checked version info for app installed from this other link, it's 25.3.0, while in cask is older 24.7.0
version "24.7.0,2470"
Relevant casks
viber.rb
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