Open Sim : Firestorm Viewer : Linux : Voice : and the Flatpak installation BLOCKED ! Updated mid September 2023

 By Avatar JayR Cela

Article Update : mid September 2023 the link is working properly again too install the latest available viewer.

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     I don't get riled up very often about much of anything, however sometimes I do get a bit pissed off at narrow minded idiotic reactions to people just trying to use some OPEN SOURCE software in order to actually be able to use the Voice function while using the FireStorm virtual world viewer software while in a Linux desktop environment

    A bit of a background, several years ago the company that supplies the Vivox voice services made a decision to no longer support the Linux platform. This resulted in the loss of the Voice feature in OpenSim and SecondLife for all Linux users.

    This problem was able to be solved by using the Wine  https://www.winehq.org/ Windows programs  compatibility layer to run native Windows based programs while using your Linux desktop, and for the most part it works well. 

    There are a number of questionable issues that are of concern, this Flatpak, that is no longer working will download several window manager packages that are no longer supported and labeled so, at this point things get kinda weird, and it depends on which fork of the FireStorm project you download and use.

    It seems to me that the Flathub Firestorm download is currently not only Broken it is : FORBIDDEN

─ $ ▶ flatpak update

Looking for updates…

        ID                                  Branch Op Remote  Download

 1. [✗] org.firestormviewer.FirestormViewer stable u  flathub 1.0 kB / 168.3 MB

Error: While downloading https://downloads.firestormviewer.org/linux/Phoenix-FirestormOS-Releasex64-6-6-8-68380.tar.xz: Server returned status 403: Forbidden

Updates complete.

error: There were one or more errors

jayr @ action1  ~

└─ $ ▶ 

   What pisses me off is, I can not use Voice while using a Linux based computer, without the ridiculous workaround of installing WINE in order to have it function properly.

I guess that the Firestorm team is following Redhat when they will no longer allow access to the source code.

   This is just DUMB....

Jessica Lyon / please help us.

Article Update : mid September 2023 the link is working properly again too install the latest available viewer.