Install zoom client in Ubuntu 18.04

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What's zoom

Zoom offers communications software that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration. Zoom can be installed on Windows and Linux desktops and mobile devices.

Zoom's Linux client allows you to start or join Zoom meetings on Ubuntu, Fedora and many other Linux distributions.

How to install zoom

The following commands would download the Zoom package for Debian system and install it using the apt package manager.

  1. Install wget if not installed 

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    sudo apt -y install wget

  2. Download the latest Zoom package 

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    wget https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb

  3. Install the zoom package 

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    sudo apt install ./zoom_amd64.deb

  4. Check zoom is installed successfully 

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    apt-cache policy zoom

apt-cache queries and displays available information about installed and installable packages, in which policy shows policy settings. The output information has demonstrated the downloaded package has installed successfully. 

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zoom:
  Installed: 3.5.352596.0119
  Candidate: 3.5.352596.0119
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.352596.0119 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  1. Set up zoom in command line 
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    zoom

Reference

None.