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This article was written for Debian based distro’s. Sorry, you RPM fans.

With the World Wide lockdown, and the new term, Social Distancing, everyone is finding new ways to stay connected. Services like Duo, Skype, Go To Meeting, and Zoom. Zoom seems to be the online meeting of choice. Zoom also has an app for all the operating systems. Linux included.

So here is how to install Zoom on your Linux system.

Go to https://zoom.us/support/download and from the drop-down box, select your Linux distro, and download the file.

Move the downloaded file to the root of your home directory. Make sure you don’t have any other ( *.deb ) file in the directory. You don’t want to re-install them again.

Once your zoom file is in your home directory, open a terminal window and type the following command.

sudo dpkg -i *.deb (-i is a small I )

This command will install any DEB file, and you don’t have to know the name either.

You more then likely get errors, (You guys know that’s why I like the terminal window, I can see if there are problems installing programs)

So to fix any errors, type the command in the terminal window.

sudo apt-get install -f

Follow the prompts and pay attention if any of the yes’s are in caps. Exp: (Y/n)

If you see the Y in caps, make sure you reply with a capital Y.

Once it finishes, you’re done. You should now have the Zoom app in the Menu under the Internet.

Hope this helps you.