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Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it is no longer
available.

Why am I betraying the Linux faithful by wanting it, you ask? Because I
have to do a speed awareness course, and the on-line courses they offer
all require you to use Teams.
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Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my
Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of
date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it
is no longer available.

Why am I betraying the Linux faithful by wanting it, you ask?
Because I have to do a speed awareness course, and the on-line
courses they offer all require you to use Teams.

When I go to the MS site to 'download' (accessing from my linux) it
directs me to the web-based Progressive Web App (PWA).

When I ask the gglAIov, it gives a believable response:

To use Microsoft Teams on Linux, the recommended approach is to use
the web-based Progressive Web App (PWA) through supported browsers
like Edge or Chrome, as the official desktop client was retired in
December 2022. An alternative is the unofficial, community-developed
"Teams for Linux" client, available as a Snap or Flatpak package,
which wraps the PWA in a standalone application

https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

Experience seamless integration with the Microsoft Teams Web App in
a standalone Electron application.

This application is an unofficial client for Microsoft Teams.

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Mike Easter
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Mike Easter cited:

Experience seamless integration with the Microsoft Teams Web App in
a standalone Electron application.

More about electron in its wp article; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)

The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies

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Handsome Jack wrote:

speed awareness course

Ha! I found a very interesting discussion of such courses on reddit; surprisingly to me, there were positive reports on the 'value' of such courses, w/ a typical critique:

Speed awareness courses are 25/30 minutes of really useful information that gets stretched out over about 4 hrs 30 mins

https://www.reddit.com/r/drivingUK/comments/1gg9h9g/what_really_happens_on_a_speed_awareness_course/
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Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it is no longer
available.

Why am I betraying the Linux faithful by wanting it, you ask? Because I
have to do a speed awareness course, and the on-line courses they offer
all require you to use Teams.

You can use Teams online, no need to install it. When you receive the
link to the course, just click on it and it will ask you if you want to
open the application (which you don't have) or use the web version. Just
click on the web version and it will open up in your web browser.

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On 05.09.2025 16:31 Uhr Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my
Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of
date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it
is no longer available.

The Teams Linux app has been discontinued.

The web version still works. I use in in Chrome for work on my Linux
laptop.
Should also run with MS Edge or Firefox.
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Marco

Send spam to 1757082660muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de

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On 2025-09-05, Handsome Jack <jack@handsome.com> wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it is no longer available.

The .deb files are now SNAPS. Mint does not have snaps by default. However
you can install snaps and then Teams. Or as suggested by others just click
on the link and get the course done.

More at https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-teams-linux-mint-22/

Why am I betraying the Linux faithful by wanting it, you ask? Because I
have to do a speed awareness course, and the on-line courses they offer
all require you to use Teams.

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Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately?

Are there snaps on Mint? I use a snap called teams-for-linux on Ubuntu
which gets continuous updates.

-jw-
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And now for something completely different...
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On Sat, 9/6/2025 6:03 AM, Joerg Walther wrote:

Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately?

Are there snaps on Mint? I use a snap called teams-for-linux on Ubuntu
which gets continuous updates.

-jw-

$ which snap
$ sudo apt install snap

$ snap search teams-for-linux
Name Version Publisher Notes Summary
teams-for-linux 2.2.1 ismaelmartinez - Teams for Linux

$ snap install teams-for-linux # dunno if that needs a sudo

But I would do a backup, make a clone of my OS,
before I'd drop materials like that into it :-)

And I can't see a thing like that working, without
setting up an MSA ("MicroSoftAccount"). Needs an
email address or so. No idea how you'd do that from
Linux or what details are involved.

Paul
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 20:17:39 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my
Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of
date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it is
no longer available.

Why am I betraying the Linux faithful by wanting it, you ask? Because I
have to do a speed awareness course, and the on-line courses they offer
all require you to use Teams.

You can use Teams online, no need to install it. When you receive the
link to the course, just click on it and it will ask you if you want to
open the application (which you don't have) or use the web version. Just click on the web version and it will open up in your web browser.

Is there some way I can set this up and test it beforehand? I don't have a webcam or anything (yet) and I don't want to be fiddling with it on the
day of reckoning.
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On Sat, 9/6/2025 11:56 AM, Handsome Jack wrote:

On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 20:17:39 +0200, Monsieur wrote:

Handsome Jack wrote:

Anyone installed Microsoft Teams on Mint lately? It's not on my
Software Manager list, and all the sources I've consulted are out of
date, usually telling you to download a .deb file from somewhere it is
no longer available.

Why am I betraying the Linux faithful by wanting it, you ask? Because I
have to do a speed awareness course, and the on-line courses they offer
all require you to use Teams.

You can use Teams online, no need to install it. When you receive the
link to the course, just click on it and it will ask you if you want to
open the application (which you don't have) or use the web version. Just
click on the web version and it will open up in your web browser.

Is there some way I can set this up and test it beforehand? I don't have a webcam or anything (yet) and I don't want to be fiddling with it on the
day of reckoning.

This is called a Test Call, and all conferencing setups (like the Medical Portal
I've used on occasion here), they have a test facility. Some of the test facilities
suck, and are useless, so this is mostly an acquired taste. In a few cases, getting the necessary info, like below, is a major challenge.

On mine, part of the objective of a test call, is to verify the zoom and crop on my camera are perfect, so you see head and shoulders squarely in the picture, and there is no excess of detail in the picture. (I can do this, because
the video sessions are low res, and only use a fraction of the camera pixels.) For sound, I have an amplified microphone (not really all that fancy, it's not a techbro mike),
and that is on a homemade boom. By recording a test call, you can verify the sound is recorded OK, and not too much "machine noise" from cooling fans
is in the signal. One way to blot out room sound, is with an array microphone (it looks like an Alexa can), as only sound on a certain vector is picked up.

[The following was produced by an AI - I added the emphasis]

"To make a Microsoft Teams test call on a PC or Mac,
select your profile picture, go to Settings > Devices, and click Make a test call.

Follow the Test Call Bot's instructions to record a message, which will then
play back to you, allowing you to check your microphone, speaker, and camera.

Step-by-step Guide:

Open Microsoft Teams: on your desktop application.
^^^^^^^
Click on your profile icon: in the upper right corner of the main window.
Select "Settings": from the menu that appears.
In the Settings window, click on the "Devices" section from the left-hand menu.
Under the "Audio devices" section, click the "Make a test call" button.
The Test Call Bot will guide you. Record a short message after the beep.

The message will be played back to you, and you will receive a summary
of the test call. This allows you to confirm that your camera, speaker,
and microphone are working correctly.

Important Notes:

The test call feature is available in the Teams desktop client for Windows and Mac.
^^^^^^^
It is not currently available in the Teams web browser version.
Your test recording is deleted immediately after the call and
is not retained or used by Microsoft.
"

Your Electron-Wrapped SNAP them, may qualify as a Desktop version. Just a guess.

Paul

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