Rambox is a great tool that brings many many email and messaging clients into one single program. I currently use it for Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram and Outlook 365 and Hotmail. Previously I had installed it from the AUR but recently it has not been working well and I noticed that its currently flagged as “out-of-date”.
The main issues were that WhatsApp and Slack stopped working and I started seeing:

To get around this issue, I have installed Rambox from the snapd package manager. First we need to install snapd
.
1[andy@home-pc ~]$ pamac build snapd
Enable with:
1[andy@home-pc ~]$
sudo
systemctl
enable
--now snapd.socket
Create the following soft link:
1[andy@home-pc ~]$
sudo
ln
-s
/var/lib/snapd/snap
/snap
Try installing the Hello World
program as a test.
123[andy@home-pc ~]$
sudo
snap
install
hello-world
2019-03-25T09:49:34Z INFO Waiting
for
restart...
hello-world 6.3 from Canonical✓ installed
To check that worked, run:
12[andy@home-pc ~]$
/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin/hello-world
Hello World!
To install the Snap Store GUI:
123[andy@home-pc ~]$
sudo
snap
install
snap-store
Automatically connect eligible plugs and slots of snap
"snap-store"
snap-store 20190228.55a1660 from Canonical✓ installed
Run the Snap Store with:
1[andy@home-pc ~]$
/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin/snap-store
You should now have the Snap Store installed.

Search for the Community Edition (CE).

Now try installing Rambox CE through the Snap Store.

Or using the command line:
1 2 3 | [andy@home-pc ~]$ sudo snap install rambox 2021-01-10T18:21:33Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart... rambox 0.7.7 from Rambox (ramboxapp✓) installed |
You should now be able to launch Rambox with:
1 | [andy@home-pc ~]$ /var/lib/snapd/snap/bin/rambox & |
Like so:

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