topic Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients in Webex Meetings and Webex App

Webex Teams for Linux Clients

lp-muc — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:08:44 GMT

Hello together,

is there a Webex Teams client available for linux machines?

Thanks, Best

Oliver

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

Jaime Valencia — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:35:34 GMT

Doesn't seem like it

https://collaborationhelp.cisco.com/article/en-us/krgc3ab

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

Jonathan Schulenberg — Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:44:14 GMT

The product team expects GNU/Linux users to leverage the web client, including WebRTC-capable browsers such as Firefox.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

Ratheesh Kumar — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 01:54:54 GMT

Hi there

You can refer this post for Webex meetings, cant find one for teams though

https://www.ost.agency/blog/how-to-make-cisco-webex-working-in-ubuntu-64bit.html

Solution:

Webex supports 32-bit distributions only.

Note: Support for some 64-bit distributions requires 32-bit binaries (Java runtime environment and browser).

Note: 64-bit Ubuntu is NOT officially supported. see related article below for Ubuntu support.

https://collaborationhelp.cisco.com/article/en-us/WBX25689

Hope this Helps

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Rath!
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Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

ironashram — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:37:06 GMT

what a shame, my company just migrated everything on webex teams and a lot of people are unhappy bacause we need to use the web version, which is crap compared to the windows/mac client

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

wwvan — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:48:17 GMT

Yes, our DevNet team just moved to Microsoft Teams due to the missing Linux solution :(

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

ANDREAS LIEBE — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:58:58 GMT

That's sad. I never thought you have to move to Microsoft to get Linux support...

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

abhi123 — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:39:11 GMT

No wonder zoom is taking over market share. I too hate this webex on browser.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

karnesbm — Fri, 08 May 2020 20:55:13 GMT

I find this as really sad, everything in Networking Academy is geared towards Linux. I wanted to integrate this into a Virtual Machine build to deliver to my students in Ubuntu but no application support. Newer switches and routers offer IOS XE with LXC so I'm confused. They could at least support Debian or Red Hat / Centos. Sigh...

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

Jaime Valencia — Fri, 08 May 2020 21:05:59 GMT

Guys, you can submit that request here: https://ciscocollabcustomer.ideas.aha.io/

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

karnesbm — Sat, 09 May 2020 00:55:19 GMT

Thank you for the link, I'll do that.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

wwvan — Sat, 09 May 2020 11:57:30 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about this feedback forum.

Click here to vote for a Webex for Linux Client.

Thanks,

Wim

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

wwvan — Sun, 10 May 2020 18:06:45 GMT

Here you can Vote for a Webex Linux Client:

Click here to vote for a Webex for Linux Client.

I hope the collaboration Team will hear us.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

lilian.moraru — Tue, 19 May 2020 22:07:57 GMT

There is currently no Webex Teams native client for Linux.

The alternative for Linux would be to use the web client: https://teams.webex.com/

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

leinardi — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:19:40 GMT

So, the request of a Linux client is now the 4th most popular idea of the official Cisco User Community Feedback:

When are you guys going to acknowledge the issue and release a proper Linux client or, at least, fix the broken web version?

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

tonypearce1 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 01:20:25 GMT

Whats the point of the Aha ideas portal when it's ignored anyway? Teams on Linux is now number 3 in the list. Cisco don't care about the customers. They just want sales sales sales. If you pay then leave then it's still a win for Cisco, right. I'm hearing many stories of customers moving to a solution that fits their business. ie microsoft teams.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

thatgeekinit — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:28:32 GMT

I have to agree that a Linux client is sorely needed or at least some helpful and well-maintained browser extensions that optimize the experience, especially since Microsoft provides at least a "preview" client. Both products are largely broken when run in the browser for persistent collaboration activities. I don't why exactly, but I suspect it has to do with timeouts for single sign-on in the browser by administrators. It's also harder to properly direct audio to headsets rather than speakers/soundcards when run in a browser.

Cisco originally marketed Teams for the DevOps comunity and doing that without a Linux client is impossible.

I'd add that Linux desktop use by technical workers is likely to increase now that Microsoft has demonstrated complete abandonment of QA with their last year or so of system destroying mandatory updates and the latest Edge browser fiasco where it presents as a literal computer virus.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

lilian.moraru — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:54:10 GMT

Most top voted aha ideas are being worked on/finished and being tested.

I would personally recommend to upvote the feature if you want more attention to it.

The Linux native client is a bigger challenge though.

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

tonypearce1 — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:41:12 GMT

"Most top voted aha ideas are being worked on/finished and being tested."

Is this confirmation that cisco are building a linux client for teams?

"The Linux native client is a bigger challenge though."

I disagree with your statement. Linux is not a new platform and there are competitors of Cisco that are doing it just fine, eg slack, zoom, microsoft teams. Implement basic messaging and calling as a starting point in Cisco Teams on Linux, then go from there. Simple really :)

Re: Webex Teams for Linux Clients

lilian.moraru — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 10:51:16 GMT

"Is this confirmation that cisco are building a linux client for teams?" - No :)

I can just encourage the community to upvote on Aha Ideas, because it's not up to engineers how many resources are put into this.

Microsoft Teams is the web page in an Electron app.

Would you be ok with https://teams.webex.com/ in an Electron app?