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

Installation can be executed from GUI or from terminal. When installation from GUI fails, it is a good idea to attempt the same action from the terminal where more verbose errors can be issued and more details obtained to unblock the installation.

Debian based distributions (.deb)

Install using apt:

sudo apt install ./teams-insiders_1.2.00.26154_amd64.deb  

RPM based distributions (.rpm)

Option 1 - Using rpm:

sudo rpm -i ./teams-insiders-1.2.00.26154-1.x86_64.rpm  

Option 2 - Using yum (Recommended):

sudo yum install ./teams-insiders-1.2.00.26154-1.x86_64.rpm  

Dependencies issues can be similar to dpkg, rpm will try to install the package, but can complain about unmet dependencies, alternative is to use yum which will try to resolve the dependencies automatically.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Can you kindly please advise, I'm getting this error

(base) [root@btigenlx3 lib]# yum install ./teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
Examining ./teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64.rpm: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
Marking ./teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package teams.x86_64 0:1.2.00.32451-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit) for package: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) for package: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit) for package: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Error: Package: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64 (/teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit)

Error: Package: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64 (/teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit)

Error: Package: teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64 (/teams-1.2.00.32451-1.x86_64)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit)

You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Answer 5

This old problem reappeared today when trying to update "teams" from Microsoft's yum repository:

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package teams.x86_64 0:1.4.00.13653-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.8)(64bit) for package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit) for package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) for package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit) for package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.22)(64bit) for package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams-insiders)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.22)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams-insiders)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.8)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams-insiders)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams-insiders)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams-insiders)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem