Microsoft Teams for Linux and Software Install

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:40 PM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> Some of my clients use Teams, so I have been using the Linux desktop
> application available from Microsoft:
>
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/download-app
>
> ...

> On 20.04, the software installer just sat there with an hourglass
> (well, a little blue circular twirly thing, whatever they call it now)
> for a looong time before I closed it and installed directly with dpkg,
> which worked fine:
>
> $ sudo dpkg -i teams_1.3.00.16851_amd64.deb
>

In previous versions of Ubuntu, I remember using something called gdebi to
install packages. In the newer versions, especially 20.04, it seems like
the Ubuntu Software utility (a branded version of the Gnome Software
utility) is SUPPOSED to handle these things, and sometimes it just fails. I
am not a fan so I avoid it. The dpkg command line utility works fine....

I'm also not 100% sold on snaps but did you try this?

$ snap install teams-for-linux

I see that Teams is there, but I can't tell how far out of date it is. (The
version number is very different, but it looks like both have been updated
in the past month or so.)

I use the snap version of the Zoom client and my only complaint there is
the snap updates without informing me.  So it's very up-to-date but I'd
rather KNOW exactly when it's being updated.

 P.S.: I don't use Teams -- my wife does on her Windows computer, and I
installed the Android version to test it on our network, but it was useless
to me because I'm not in her corporate workgroup. She and I were able to
communicate but I couldn't initiate any calls.
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