Repository for Linux packages

[mhalano]

When will be available a repository for DEB and RPM Zoom's packages? It's hard to keep an eye on the updates and download and install manually. I would like if my system find the updates during the regular update.

[Arps]

Hello!

As you mentioned, this is not currently available.  

At this time, all feature requests are managed within our https://zoom.us/feed submission form. We encourage you to submit this idea there, where the information will reach the relevant product team for review.

Hope that helps and please make sure to mark the solution as accepted if this information is what you needed.

Thanks! Rick

[dmbreakey]

Seconded; it's wonderful that Zoom even offers proper packages, but the fact that I have to be reminded by the client to do this is frustrating to the extreme, since literally every other resource is automatically managed at the system level, without any mandatory interaction needed by me except that which I have already chosen to do.

All this does is remind me why I stopped using Windows in the first place; it was irritating to have to run a dozen different apps, wasting system resources, just to handle "automatic" updates of the non-Microsoft stuff.

And I don't know about an RPM/Yum repo, but setting up an APT repo is pretty easy; I'm certain anyone who has the skills to build a *.deb package file can certainly handle setting up the repo to go with it.

[mwlphelps]

Yes, this is critical for maintaining large numbers of systems. I have already submitted an entry in the online for, but I'm adding my voice here too.

[Danathar]

It should be possible to write a shell script that will create a local repository, download the latest client, put it in the local repository (I'm using apt, but you could do an RPM repository), and then upgrade or install as needed. 

Why we should have to do this IDK, Zoom should be providing their own SNAP, Appimage, repository or flatpak..or something.

[pierof]

2 years+ and this is still not available? Official instructions say "download the deb and install it manually". This is not how you do things in Linux.

[kna]

Here is a GitHub repository for creating an RPM repository: https://github.com/mheffner/zoom-rpm-repo

[MikeKachar]

Zoom Support;

This topic/thread was initially created on 11/19/2021 (2.5 years ago!) - what can we [users] do to try to push this along? One would think, if there's someone that is already creating various Linux installation packages for the Zoom application, that it would just be a small addition to also create a repository (aka repo) that users could add to their config that would keep their application up-to-date.

I installed Zoom onto my Debian-based Linux system using my package manager (apt), which my application is currently up-to-date based on what my package manager has available (v5.14.5.2430), however that version was initially released on 04/18/2023 (per Zoom's Release Notes for Linux), which is now over one [1] year old. I'm not sure which [yet], but either Zoom needs to update the package being used by the repo of my flavor of Linux, or my repo needs to update the package available from their end. I will find this out.

In the interim, it would be so much more helpful if a Zoom repo were to just exist - then users could download & perform the install themselves, add the repo to their sources.list, and everything would stay up-to-date. If I were to install the currently available version (v6.0.2.4680), then it definitely wouldn't get updated, unless I manually did it again (myself), AND the install would sit next to my current installation, done thru my package manager. I could remove that, but it's only a temporary fix, and TBH I am hoping that my package manager gets word about the latest version and gets it in there for a future update.

Anyways, if someone could please advise who I/we would need to bring this issue to attention to, or where [else] I/we could post this request, I know I'd be grateful.

TIA!

--Mike--