Installing and Upgrading Zoom desktop client on Linux
I just stumble across a non-legit signing cert the other day while wanting to update the Zoom client on Debian and Red Hat like distros. I was wondering if Zoom Inc. is to lazy to provide their Linux User base a valid public signing key for their packages (deb and rpm). Nevertheless, the key just arrived today and with a little tweaking the install should run through smoothly. So for all those people who want to upgrade or install the Zoom desktop client onto lots of Linux desktop machines feel free to follow the below steps. Any Feedback is always appreciated. 1. Change to a Download directory 2. Get the new public signing key 3. Check the public signing key 4. Import the key 5. Get the latest, newest and upgraded Zoom DEB-Package 6. Install the Zoom DEB-Package 7. Check if the Client starts and closes properly 8. Happy Zooming Removal (will purge the depending packages too) Side Note: I had an old client which was removed properly during the install. So there is no need to remove it in the first place. But it wouldn't matter if you do, so no worries. Of course is it possible to automate and schedule things with a nice script for goodness sake. Alternatives might be snap packages and flatpaks. But I am to old school. I stick with debs and rpms and old rotting repositories for now 😉 1. Change to a Download directory 2. Get the new public signing key 3. Check the public signing key 4. Import the key 5. Get the latest, newest and upgraded Zoom RPM-Package 6. Install the Zoom RPM-Package 7. Check if the Client starts and closes properly 8. Happy Zooming Removal (will purge the depending packages too) Install the latest Zoom Client with snapd under Ubuntu 22.04 or Distribution who are supporting SNAP Packages Upgrade Zoom Client (Snap Package) Remove Zoom Client (Snap Package) No guarantees for the above commands. If you find typos or errors let me know. The above links might change too over time. Preface
A. For Debian, Ubuntu, Mint like distros
cd ~/Downloadswget -O package-signing-key.pub https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey?version=5-12-6gpg --show-keys package-signing-key.pubsudo gpg --import package-signing-key.pubwget https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.debsudo apt install ./zoom_amd64.debzoom &sudo apt autoremove zoom --purgeB. For Red Hat, Fedora, RHEL, Oracle Linux, Alma, Rocky, Centos like distros
cd ~/Downloadswget -O package-signing-key.pub https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey?version=5-12-6gpg --show-keys package-signing-key.pubsudo rpm --import package-signing-key.pubwget https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpmsudo dnf localinstall zoom_x86_64.rpmzoom &sudo dnf erase zoom
C. For Snap package enthusiasts
sudo snap install zoom-clientsudo snap refresh zoom-clientsudo snap remove zoom-client
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