May 05 2020 06:46 AM
According to this URL: https://itsfoss.com/microsoft-teams-linux/, Microsoft provides .DEB installer files for Debian and Ubuntu based distributions and .RPM for Red Hat and Fedora based distributions for MS Teams. I would like to know if there are any plans to also include the FreeBSD operation system into this mix? I believe it would be a worthwhile venture. Since MS is already supporting some *nix systems, including FreeBSD should not prove a major problem. I would be happy to do some beta testing if required.
Thanks!
May 28 2020 01:25 AM
@BeerStud - This isn't currently considered for an extension of our Linux roadmap, but we will definitely keep an eye on it to see if interest grows on the market.
May 28 2020 02:46 AM
Jun 01 2020 07:53 AM
Jun 13 2020 07:36 PM
After many years away from FreeBSD .. I too would like to see Teams available.
I am having to go away from OSX due to the prohibitive cost of hardware that my employer will not accept.
FreeBSD is my next best choice I feel.
Jul 06 2020 02:39 AM
I have just spent the afternoon attempting to get the Linux version (binary extracted from an RPM) on FreeBSD thanks to the FreeBSD kernels "Linux Compatibility" emulation.
I found that a large number of shared objects were not present, so I copied them over from a Linux installation that I have which runs the Linux version of Teams.
However, even once all the dependencies where satisfied, I still had these errors in the log:
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libpixman-1.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libpng16.so.16)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libsystemd.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libsystemd.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.26' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libsystemd.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.30' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libsystemd.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libsystemd.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libgnutls.so.30)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libbsd.so.0)
/usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/teams: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.26' not found (required by /usr/home/cam/Downloads/teams/usr/share/teams/./libp11-kit.so.0)
I think a possible solution here would be to release a Linux portable version (unpack and execute) this would allow users of other non Debian or Red Hat based systems such as Arch to use Teams, and it would more than likely work for the various BSD Unix's as well
Cheers,
Cam
Jul 06 2020 04:05 AM
I sincerely appreciate your help on this matter. However, I feel that the best solution would be for Microsoft to realize that there is a market for their 'Teams' platform on systems other than Windows & Linux. Many Linux programs work out of the box on FreeBSD. Others take a little massaging to get to work properly. There is absolutely no reason that Microsoft with its vast resources could not easily create a fully operational version of Teams for the FreeBSD operating system. If they were to combine this with making a version of their Edge browser that was fully operational on a FreeBSD system, it would be a win-win for everyone.
Nov 29 2020 10:07 PM
Re: https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer#readme I used linux-browser-installer to install Google Chrome on FreeBSD-CURRENT:
/compat/ubuntu/bin/chrome
Re: https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer/issues/2 I do not yet have sound out, which probably explains the absence of Devices from my Settings dialogue.
Also via https://github.com/mrclksr/linux-browser-installer#readme we have this, for those of you who might be happy with /compat/linux using Ubuntu in lieu of CentOS:
Nov 30 2020 10:27 PM