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hamletmun
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January 11, 2022
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Update Zoom in Debian/Ubuntu

  • January 11, 2022
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Too bad there is no PPA for Zoom. I use this script to check for newer zoom_amd64.deb and update.

Installing or updating Zoom on Linux – Zoom Support

#!/bin/sh echo Installed: $(cat /opt/zoom/version.txt) echo Available: $(wget --spider https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb 2>&1 | grep Location | sed -e 's/.*prod\/\(.*\)\/.*/\1/') REPLY=n echo -n "Download and install? " read REPLY if [ $REPLY = y ] ; then wget -c https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb sudo apt install ./zoom_amd64.deb rm zoom_amd64.deb fi

 

      Best answer by jeremyjustin

      hi @hamletmun thank you for your post on the Zoom Community! In regards to updating with PPA, that is a great suggestion and I believe it would help to have you enter this functionality as a feature request. Currently, our product team reviews all feature requests submitted via our feedback form https://zoom.us/feed. I highly encourage you to submit this feature there! It would help to add a little bit about your company, how many employees this is impacting, etc. 

       

      If this has answered your question to your satisfaction, please click the "Accept as Solution" button below but if not please reply and we can continue the  discussion. Thank you!

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      jeremyjustin
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      jeremyjustinAnswer
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      January 11, 2022

      hi @hamletmun thank you for your post on the Zoom Community! In regards to updating with PPA, that is a great suggestion and I believe it would help to have you enter this functionality as a feature request. Currently, our product team reviews all feature requests submitted via our feedback form https://zoom.us/feed. I highly encourage you to submit this feature there! It would help to add a little bit about your company, how many employees this is impacting, etc. 

       

      If this has answered your question to your satisfaction, please click the "Accept as Solution" button below but if not please reply and we can continue the  discussion. Thank you!

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      liam-lb
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      January 12, 2023

      Adding a tweaked version that will automatically update when the versions don't match:

      #!/usr/bin/env bash # This script will download and install the Zoom client ZOOM_DEB='zoom_amd64.deb' version_installed=$(cat /opt/zoom/version.txt) version_available=$(wget --spider https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb 2>&1 | grep Location | sed -e 's/.*prod\/\(.*\)\/.*/\1/') echo "Installed: ${version_installed}" echo "Available: ${version_available}" if [[ "${version_installed}" == "${version_available}" ]]; then echo "The latest version is installed. Exiting." else curl -J -L -o /tmp/${ZOOM_DEB} https://www.zoom.us/client/latest/${ZOOM_DEB} sudo dpkg --install /tmp/${ZOOM_DEB} sudo apt install -f fi
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        bitbin
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        May 29, 2025

        Thank you - this has been helpful for me. Recently it started hanging on the wget command so I made some updates using only curl and wanted to share them.

         

        #!/usr/bin/env bash
        # This script will download and install the Zoom client 
        # https://community.zoom.com/t5/Zoom-Meetings/Update-Zoom-in-Debian-Ubuntu/m-p/32820

        arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"
        echo "info: architecture ${arch}"
        ZOOM_DL="zoom_${arch}.deb"
        ZOOM_DEB=$(mktemp --tmpdir "zoom_${arch}_XXXXXX.deb")

        version_installed=$(cat /opt/zoom/version.txt)
        uri=$(curl --silent --no-styled-output --write-out '%{redirect_url}' https://zoom.us/client/latest/${ZOOM_DL})
        version_available=$(echo ${uri} | sed -e 's/.*prod\/\(.*\)\/.*/\1/')

        echo "Installed: ${version_installed}"
        echo -e "Available: ${version_available} - URI: ${uri}\n"

        if [[ "${version_installed}" == "${version_available}" ]]; then
        echo -e "The latest version is installed. Exiting.\n"
        else
        echo -e "upgrade needed - downloading and will prompt to install with sudo.\n"
        curl -J -L ${uri} -o ${ZOOM_DEB}
        sudo dpkg --install ${ZOOM_DEB}
        sudo apt install -f
        fi

        rm -f ${ZOOM_DEB}

         

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        barak
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        May 29, 2025

        See

        https://github.com/barak/zoom-ubuntu-repo/blob/master/zoom-up

        described below. It also uses curl, but it forks a process to do the download and sniffs the beginning of the downloaded data to check the version of the downloading .deb file, and if it's not an upgrade, aborts the download.

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          barak
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          July 3, 2023

          I wrote a shell script that checks if the installed zoom is up to date and if not (or if it's not installed) install the latest. It uses shell tricks to initiate a download, check the version in the header as it streams in, and abort the download if it isn't newer.

           

          https://github.com/barak/zoom-ubuntu-repo/blob/master/zoom-up

           

          Zoom really should just put the version number in the filename of the .deb, or even better make a little repo in the proper format.

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            gene_wood
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            December 23, 2025

            You can use the APT::Update::Pre-Invoke feature in apt.conf to instruct apt to check for an updated Zoom .deb file and fetch it if needed.

            To enable this approach, copy paste the code below into a file and run it once. The code will

            • Create a new /usr/local/zoom-deb-files directory to contain the Zoom .deb file and the APT repo files (Packages and Release)
            • Create the new /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99update_zoom file. This file instructs apt to check for a newer file hosted on Zoom's CDN, each time you run apt update, and if one is present, download it and rebuild the local APT repo.
            • Create the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-zoom.list file to instruct apt to use this new local APT repo
            #!/usr/bin/env bash

# Based on https://askubuntu.com/a/1316231/14601

url=https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb
debdir=/usr/local/zoom-deb-files
aptconf=/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99update_zoom
sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-zoom.list

sudo mkdir -p $debdir
# --timestamping only fetches the file if the last-modified HTTP header in the
#   response is newer than the last modified time of the local file
# --no-if-modified-since tells wget to send a HEAD request to determine if
#   there's a new file or not before sending a GET request
# The grep prevents running apt-ftparchive if no new file was downloaded
echo 'APT::Update::Pre-Invoke ' \
'{"cd '$debdir' ' \
'&& wget --timestamping --no-if-modified-since '$url' 2>&1 ' \
'| ( grep --quiet ' "'Server file no newer than local file'" ' && exit 1 || exit 0 ) ' \
'&& apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages ' \
'&& apt-ftparchive release . > Release ' \
'|| true";};' | sudo tee $aptconf
echo 'deb [trusted=yes lang=none] file:'$debdir' ./' | sudo tee $sourcelist

            Once this is done, you can run this to install Zoom

            sudo apt update
sudo apt install zoom
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