Provide repository installation instructions instead of offering rpm and deb packages

Question

It's not good practice to offer directly rpm and deb packages from web page an it's difficult to install said software programmatically that way.

It would be better to provide repository installation instructions for both apt and yum repositories and then provide the package name.

This can be offered as an alternative installation alongside the actual software installation packages is you feel that users may want to download unnecessary packages instead of using their underlying OS's package management from repositories.

Answer 1

Thank you for your feedback @Ville Liski . I will make sure we have our official docs updated with these instructions as well. I'll leave instructions here too

Debian and Ubuntu based distributions

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -  

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list'  

sudo apt update  
sudo apt install teams  

RHEL, Fedora and CentOS based distributions

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc  

sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[teams]\nname=teams\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/ms-teams\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/teams.repo'  

sudo dnf check-update  
sudo dnf install teams  

# alternatively  
# yum check-update  
# sudo yum install teams  

openSUSE based distributions

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc  

sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[teams]\nname=teams\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/ms-teams\nenabled=1\nautorefresh=1\nkeeppackages=0\ntype=rpm-md\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/zypp/repos.d/teams.repo'  

sudo zypper refresh  
sudo zypper install teams

Answer 2

If you are using Ansible to configure a RHEL, Fedora or CentOS you could add the following to your .yml to do the same as the answer by @Marian Javorka - MSFT :

## Install the microsoft key.  
  - name: Import a key from microsoft  
    rpm_key:  
      state: present  
      key: https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc  
## Add the repo  
  - name: Enable the microsoft repository for fedora  
    copy:  
      dest: /etc/yum.repos.d/ms-teams.repo  
      content: |  
        [teams]  
        name=teams  
        baseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/ms-teams  
        enabled=1  
        gpgcheck=1  
        gpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc  
## Install teams  
  - name: Ensure teams is installed from microsoft  
    dnf:  
      name:  
        - teams  
      state: latest  
  

Answer 3

All I needed to know using Opensuse Leap 15.2, Marian thanks