Install Slack on Linux, Chat Application For Team Communication
How do you communicate with your community or co-workers to discuss the work you are doing remotely? Yes, you use the app chat.
Especially if you are a developer who is working on project collaboration with other friends in a team, or working on a product for company or startup where you work.
Compared to having to use e-mail to communicate or application chat in general, using Slack will be much more effective. Slack is a platform chat specially designed to carry out communication for teams, companies or other work groups.
Since it’s specifically designed for team communication, using Slack for team communication tools will make communication even better. With the Team and Channel features that Slack has, it makes the team conversation space more focused and not mixed with other teams or topics.
Then by using Slack you will be able to share data more easily with your team, Slack supports various data formats that can be shared. Shared data will be saved to Cloud belongs to Slack. You can also integrate Slack with various services Cloud others such as DropBox, OneDrive, Box, and Google Drive.
Slack also allows you to integrate with various other services you need to work with your team. For example your team is a team developers, You can integrate Slack with GitHub or other applications.
Slack is actually chat platforms web-based, you can use Slack via web browser. However, if you are more comfortable using the application, you can use the Slack version of the application available for the Desktop.
Desktop applications for Slack are available for use on various operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. On Linux itself, Slack can be used on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora systems. But so far, the Slack Desktop app for Linux is still the version beta and can only be available for 64 bit systems.
Install Slack on Ubuntu and Debian
You can install Slack on Ubuntu and Debian (and derivatives) distros using the file package “.deb” which you can download here. Download the “.deb” file according to the distro you are using. For Debian distros, download the file package “.deb” the same one used for Ubuntu.
When finished downloading, open the ‘Download’ folder and make sure the “.deb” file from Slack that you downloaded earlier is in the ‘Download’ folder.
Then open Terminal by pressing the keyboard combination / shortcuts CTRL + ALT + T or open Terminal via the application menu. Since the downloaded file is in the ‘Download’ folder, type the following command in Terminal to get you into the ‘Download’ folder:
cd ~/Downloads
Then install Slack by entering the following commands in Terminal:
sudo dpkg -i nama_file.deb
Replace the word “name_file.deb” in the command with the name of the file from Slack that you downloaded earlier, usually the name followed by the version of Slack you downloaded. For example as follows:
sudo dpkg -i slack-desktop-2.6.3-amd64.deb
Match the file name to the version of Slack you downloaded. Then wait for the installation process to finish and make sure it’s not there error during the installation process.
If there is a notification error or failed during the Slack installation process because there are dependencies needed by Slack but not on the desktop you are using, type the following command in Terminal to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -f
Wait for the dependency installation process to complete. When finished, repeat the steps to install Slack before and make sure the Slack installation process is successful and no longer exists error that happened.
After a successful installation, you can open Slack from your desktop applications menu and start using Slack for your team work purposes.
How to Update Slack on Debian and Ubuntu
In order toupdates or update Slack to the latest version when there is an update so you get the latest features or to fix bugs. Type the following command in Terminal:
sudo apt-get update
Wait for the process updates until finished. Then upgrade by entering the following command:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Wait for the upgrade process to finish and make sure it’s not there error what happens during the process upgrades.
