How to Install Slack on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04

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This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Slack on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04.

Slack, the popular team communication and collaboration platform is now available for Linux and this brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install it on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 desktop.

Slack brings teams together to collaborate on projects so work can get done as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Whether you’re a small or large enterprise, Slack can help your team communicate and collaborate… and these conversations will be available on the desktop, mobile devices and everywhere you have Slack installed.

When you’re ready to install Slack for Linux follow the steps below:

Below are two options available when installing Slack on Ubuntu desktops…. You can select either one to get it installed.

Option #1: Install Slack DEB Package

To install Slack using its DEB package, simply go to this link below and select the .DEB version… 64-bit should be good if your system supports it.

Then download it to your desktop (usually to the Downloads folder of your Home directory).

https://slack.com/downloads/linux

slack for linux ubuntu

Download and save the file to your desktop… usually in the ~/Downloads folder of your Home directory.

Slack for linux ubuntu install

After downloading, navigate to your Downloads folder, then right-click the downloaded file and select Open With Software Install

Slack for Linux setup

When Ubuntu Software opens, click Install to begin the installation.

Slack for Ubuntu Linux

That should prompt you to type and confirm your password before the installation can continue… When you’re done, Slack should be installed and ready to use.

To launch it, go to the Activities Overview and search Slack and launch it.

Slack Ubuntu setup

Option #2: Install Slack via Snap

Slack can also be installed via Ubuntu snap package management. This might be the quickest way to install Slack.

To install via Snap, run the commands below

sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install slack --classic

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to install Slack on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.

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Published by Richard Zayzay

Hi, I'm Richard. In my spare time, I research topics that are interesting and worthwhile for users and students who want to try something new. I, too, am a student and my focus here is to help other students and new users get started with managing Ubuntu Linux, Windows, Content Management Systems (CMS) and others. I try to do my best explaining the topics and detailing the instructions so that anyone can understand. These tutorials may not work in all situations and for all users. However, if you run into trouble, please ask your questions below and I or someone from the community may help you resolve. Thanks for reading and hope you come back. ~Richard

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