Installing Microsoft Teams in Linux

Question

Any help on how to install/configure Microsoft Team in Linux

Answer 1

You can download the package here https://teams.microsoft.com/download, double click and follow the package manager instructions.

Answer 2

It seems that is a recurrent question.
Official Teams app was retired from Snapcraft at the end of 2022.
It appears that Microsoft stopped to create Linux app packages on the same time period.
There are third party websites that might host .deb or .rpm outdated packages, however there is hard to determine if they are "official" copies.

At this point there is a project on Canonical Snapcraft:

Teams for Linux Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron. https://snapcraft.io/teams-for-linux

Answer 3

I'm using teams on PWA for more 2 month and have being a unpleasant experience. MS switch from a very nice native version that works to PWA that doesn't, cameras that working in one meeting and on the second doesn't work anymore, mics that during meetings stop work, and I'm not talk the nice feature it has to auto mute you. No notications, etc. I real hope MS will review this decision.

Answer 4

I'm also running into installation problems with the latest version. The machine in question is running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:

sudo apt install ./teams_1.4.00.26453_amd64.deb

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'teams' instead of './teams_1.4.00.26453_amd64.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
teams
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 84.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 303 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable/main amd64 teams amd64 1.4.00.26453 [84.5 MB]
Fetched 84.5 MB in 20s (4,244 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package teams.
(Reading database ... 611443 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../teams_1.4.00.26453_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking teams (1.4.00.26453) ...
Setting up teams (1.4.00.26453) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
dpkg: error: dpkg frontend lock is locked by another process
E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke '/usr/local/apps/zoom/updater.sh'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

First... I'm puzzled as to WHY it is trying to update a competing product?: Post-Invoke '/usr/local/apps/zoom/updater.sh' Given Microsoft's history of intentional borking other installed apps, this is a very questionable move to do, particularly when there is no explanation about what is happening.

Second... the resulting Teams installation isn't functional. When I start it, I get a teams login dialog without text next to any of the fields. Clicking in what appears to be fields and typing produces no visible text.

When I use the official package directly, I encounter a similar problem:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients#linux

Answer 5

Hi, I have been trying to install Teams but I get an error saying "Dependency is not satisfiable: libgtk-3-0 (>=3.19.12)" when I try to use the package installer interface. I tried installing from the terminal and this was the output:
sudo apt install ./teams_1.4.00.13653_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'teams' instead of './teams_1.4.00.13653_amd64.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 teams : Depends: libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12) but 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I tried running "sudo apt upgrade libgtk-3-0" and got this:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgtk-3-0 is already the newest version (3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3).
Calculating upgrade... Done

What can I do in this situation? I'm using Linux Mint 18.2, which is a Debian based system.