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Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux

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Marissa Salazar
Former Employee
Dec 10, 2019

Starting today, Microsoft Teams is available for Linux users in public preview, enabling high quality collaboration experiences for the open source community at work and in educational institutions. Users can download the native Linux packages in .deb and .rpm formats here. We are constantly improving based on community feedback, so please download and submit feedback based on your experience.


The Microsoft Teams client is the first Microsoft 365 app that is coming to Linux desktops, and will support all of Teams’ core capabilities. Teams is the hub for teamwork that brings together chat, video meetings, calling, and collaboration on Office 365 documents and business processes within a single, integrated experience.

 

 

Most of our customers have devices running on a variety of different platforms such as Windows 10, Linux and others. We are committed to supporting mixed environments across our cloud and productivity offerings, and with this announcement, we are pleased to extend the Teams experience to Linux users. It’s also an exciting opportunity for developers who have built apps for Teams to be able to grow their reach to this new set of users.


“2019 has been another incredible year in open source, and Linux continues to be at the heart of all the growth and innovation. I’m really excited about the availability of Microsoft Teams for Linux. With this announcement, Microsoft is bringing its hub for teamwork to Linux. I’m thrilled to see Microsoft’s recognition of how companies and educational institutions alike are using Linux to transform their work culture.”
- Jim, Zemlin, Executive Director at The Linux Foundation

 

 
We have been working with customers over the past few months to help them streamline their collaboration and business scenarios using the Teams client for Linux, and are excited to hear how they are using Teams in their organizations to empower teams to do more.

“At Volvo Cars, Linux is being used by many users in several departments. Up until now, our Linux users have largely been stuck on a collaboration island with different unofficial and unsupported clients for Skype for Business and more recently Microsoft Teams. With Teams for Linux from Microsoft, we have been able to leave that island and collaborate across our different platforms with the full functionality of a rich client. If I should point out one thing, being able to participate in screen sharing is a huge improvement for the Linux users at Volvo Cars.”
- Jimmy Beckman, Personal Products, Volvo Cars
 

 
If you currently don't have a commercial Office 365 subscription, you can still try Microsoft Teams for Free. You can find more information on technical requirements here. We are committed to delivering rich and engaging experiences that help our customers. We welcome your feedback and suggestions about the product experience on UserVoice.
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  • nedrebo's avatar
    nedrebo
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019

    What is the raw url to the deb (or rpm)? This makes repackaging for other distributions easier. My use case is to make an Arch Linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

  • JacekJagosz's avatar
    JacekJagosz
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019

    You really need enable more distributions by using Snap or Flatpak as others said, or best to release source file. If Teams was in repositories of most distributions, this would greatly improve the user experience.

    I would like to package and maintain it for Solus for example.

  • avryhof's avatar
    avryhof
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019
    Love it! And with Outlook being a PWA now, I can almost move completely to Linux.
  • CyberDustin's avatar
    CyberDustin
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019

    On RHEL 7.7:

     

    ~]$ sudo yum install teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64.rpm

    .

    .

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    error: Failed dependencies:
    libXss.so.1()(64bit) is needed by teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
    libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit) is needed by teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
    libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) is needed by teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
    libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit) is needed by teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64

  • mjskier's avatar
    mjskier
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019
    On Mint 19.1, the .deb package installs fine. Audio setup seems straightforward, and the test call works just fine. BUT when doing a call to my next cube neighbor, all he hears is bad static noise which gets louder when I speak. Zbook studio G5 with thunderbolt Dock G2 Using a plantronics C3220 headset plugged into the laptop USB. Audio set to Plantronics Blackwire digital stereo duplex (IEC958)
  • Kenni3958's avatar
    Kenni3958
    Brass Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019

    Wow, This is great news. I have used O365 on Linux, but only in the browser. What is the best way of getting the App?

  • HaroldvandeKamp's avatar
    HaroldvandeKamp
    MCT
    Dec 10, 2019

    Great to see the Linux client being released also. Thanks for the screenshots regarding Microsoft Teams on Linux. 👍

  • Olav Rønnestad Birkeland's avatar
    Olav Rønnestad Birkeland
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 10, 2019

    Cool that Linux users now also have Teams available. But why do you steer away from distributing Teams with modern package solutions? Like Snap or Flatpak for Linux, or Microsoft Store for Windows? That I'd like to know.