Microsoft Teams in Fedora with Flatpak

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As published by many other websites earlier, Microsoft is suspending support for Microsoft Teams in Linux. We have been able to download MS Teams for Linux from go.microsoft.com , but those days are soon over.

Microsoft also said that they will come with instructions how to use MS Teams as a Progressive Web Application (PWA) in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome soon.

Install Microsoft Teams with Flatpak

The best option today is to use teams-for-linux available with Flatpak. It’s Ismael Martinez that maintains the pak and sources are available at github.com .

First we need to add the Flathub repository to Flatpak:

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Then we update:

$ flatpak update

Now search for the package:

$ flatpak search teams-for-linux
# You should see:
teams-for-linux
Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron
com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux 1.0.44

And finally we install the package:

$ flatpak install com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux

To run the application you use the application menu in GNOME and search for Teams and you will find the Teams logo, or from command line we can start Teams with the flatpak command:

$ flatpak run com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux

Microsoft Teams in Fedora Linux

Now we have a functional, Electron wrapped, Microsoft Teams client in Fedora Linux!