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jmadero
Copper Contributor
Apr 08, 2020

MS Teams on Linux Still Telling Me Not Open to Public

Hi All, My office is transitioning away from Skype for Business and into Teams against my recommendation. The only upside is that according to various sources, Teams is available on Linux which I ru...
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    rsindlinger
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    Apr 16, 2020

    KevinCallanan

    I am having the same problem, running under Centos 7.

    I had originally installed teams-1.3.00.958-1.x86_64.rpm on March 18.

    I have downloaded the current latest, teams-1.3.00.5153-1.x86_64.rpm, but YUM claims it's not an update:

    sudo yum install usr/src/teams-1.3.00.5153-1.x86_64.rpm
    [sudo] password for rsindlin:
    Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, fastestmirror, langpacks
    Examining usr/src/teams-1.3.00.5153-1.x86_64.rpm: teams-1.3.00.5153-1.x86_64
    usr/src/teams-1.3.00.5153-1.x86_64.rpm: does not update installed package.
    Error: Nothing to do

     

    Back in November, I saw that Teams was not supported for Centos 7, but more recent announcements have not included that caveat.

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      jmadero
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 17, 2020

      I did a complete uninstall and a reinstall with a new download from here: https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app#desktopAppDownloadregion

       

      got back to the "we're still still developing Teams for Linux" - this is from the debian package.....

       

      Microsoft should just open source this application so the Linux community can fix these problems....

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        jmadero
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 17, 2020

        Update: Installing teams-insider package from the Ubuntu repository works.....so the Ubuntu repo says the same version as the debian package download from the previous link I posted yet they behave differently...

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    jmadero
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 08, 2020

    KevinCallanan I purged everything and then downloaded the debian and installed. Same error

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      KevinCallanan
      Brass Contributor
      Apr 08, 2020

      jmadero I don't have a Linux VM currently to test but it looks like based on the UserVoice Teams on Linux is officially supported now and was released mid-February: 

       

      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients#linux 

       

      As an alternative (not ideal) the Teams Web Client is fully functional: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=855753

       

       

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