Zoom is a great meeting and communication platform.
If you want to learn how to install it in Ubuntu, the steps below should get you started.
This brief tutorial shows students and new users the steps to install the Zoom client on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04 LTS.
Zoom is a cross-platform video communication tool that works on Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux systems. It allows users to schedule and join meetings, and video webinars and provide remote technical support.
Zoom is one of the few companies that provide full Linux support. So the client works and supports features you’ll find in other operating systems.
The client is not open-source software. However, if you’re going to be participating in Zoom conference calls or scheduling Zoom meetings, then you will want to install the Zoom app for Linux.
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
You should then get a prompt to accept packages that are going to 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 hard for you to type, then use the steps below to download and install.
Open your browser and browse the link below. Then choose Ubuntu for 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, then 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 and 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.
Got Zoom installed on Ubuntu 20.04 but with one issue.
When configuring Zoom for the recording folder, it won’t recognize the 2nd hard disk in the system, or any of my NAS drives. Is there a way around this?
To me Zoom is a useful app, so I need to download. So please help me.
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