Follow

Keep Up to Date with the Most Important News

By pressing the Subscribe button, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Contact

Teams version on Ubuntu Software Manager

If I go to the Ubuntu (20.04) software manager, I can find at least 3 versions for Teams: teams-for-linux, Microsoft-Teams-insiders, Microsoft-Teams-Preview.

What is the best or the correct version/way to install Teams on Ubuntu?

MEDevel.com: Open-source for Healthcare and Education

Collecting and validating open-source software for healthcare, education, enterprise, development, medical imaging, medical records, and digital pathology.

Visit Medevel

>Solution :

What you are seeing are different versions of Teams distributed as Snap package by different packagers. Not sure which one is the best.

Best is a relative term, but probably, the best way to install Teams in Ubuntu is to use the official .deb installer package from Microsoft. That is the only "officially" supported way of installing Teams on Linux.

To install the downloaded .deb, double-click it. The Software store will install it and pull in all necessary dependencies. Alternatively, you can install from the terminal with either the commands sudo apt install <path-to-debfile> or sudo dpkg -i <path-to-debfile> .

The Microsoft deb installer actually adds a PPA for Teams to your system. That means that Teams automatically will be updated when a new version becomes available.

To remove Teams, see here.

Add a comment

Leave a Reply

Keep Up to Date with the Most Important News

By pressing the Subscribe button, you confirm that you have read and are agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Discover more from Dev solutions

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading