This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install the Zoom client on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04 LTS.
Zoom is a cross-platform video communication tool on Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux systems. It allows users to schedule and join meetings and video webinars and provide remote technical support.
Installing the Zoom app on Ubuntu Linux allows you to use all the features of Zoom, including scheduling and joining meetings, video webinars, and remote technical support.
Zoom is available on multiple platforms, and Linux is one of the few operating systems fully supported by Zoom.
Whether you’re participating in Zoom conference calls or scheduling Zoom meetings, installing the Zoom app on Ubuntu Linux will ensure that you can use all the Zoom features.
To get started with installing Zoom, follow the steps below:
The are multiple ways to install Zoom client on Ubuntu. You can use the command line terminal as well as the desktop GUI.
For fast installation, use the command line terminal
How to install Zoom in Ubuntu via the command line
The quickest way to install Zoom client is via the Ubuntu command line interface. Simply run the commands below to install the client.
First, press Ctrl + Alt + T on your keyboard to launch the command line terminal.
Then type the commands below to install:
wget -O Downloads/zoom.deb https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install ~/Downloads/zoom.deb
It would be best if you then got a prompt to accept packages that will be installed. Type y for Yes and continue the installation.
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting 'zoom' instead of '/home/richard/Downloads/zoom.deb'
The following additional packages will be installed:
libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libxcb-xtest0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libxcb-xtest0 zoom
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.7 kB/41.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 155 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
That’s it!
You can now go to the Activities Dashboard and start the Zoom client.
How to install Zoom in Ubuntu via the DEB package
If the commands above are complex to type, use the steps below to download and install.
Open your browser and browse the link below. Then, choose Ubuntu for the Linux Type.
https://zoom.us/download?os=linux
Click the Download button to save to your desktop, usually in the Downloads folder of your Home directory.
After downloading, navigate to your Downloads folder in your Home directory, right-click the downloaded file, and select Open With Software Install.
When Ubuntu Software opens, click Install to begin the installation.
That should prompt you to type and confirm your password before the installation can continue. When you’re done, Zoom should be installed and ready to use…
To launch it, go to the Activities Overview, search Zoom, and launch it.
That’s it!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to install Zoom client on Ubuntu 20.04 | `8.04 desktop. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.
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