[CentOS] [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the? latest version work?

Wed Jul 14 10:49:47 UTC 2021
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:33:42 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On 13/07/2021 15:07, Tru Huynh wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
> >> On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >>> Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7?
> >>>
> > <...>
> >>> The release that doesn't work is 1.4.00.13653. The one that does
> >>> is 1.4.00.7556.
> >>>
> >>> - Toralf
> >>>
> >> My wife has been using it on el7, but for the last month or two yum
> >> has been complaining about broken dependencies when trying to update
> >> it, so I'd disabled the Teams repo from yum updating.
> >>
> >> I can check what version I'm running later for you, if that would be
> >> helpful.
> > AFAIK, the latest rpm version for c7 is teams-1.4.00.7556-1.x86_64
> > after that they only support CentOS-8 for rpm or snap based for c7
> > (but one needs to have $HOME under /home).
> 
> OK.
> 
> The weird thing here is that the newer version actually installs. If 
> it's built on/for a later release, I'd normally expect complaints about 
> the libc or libstdc++ version or something along those lines...

That assumes that the RPM was *properly* build from source. Many producers of
closed source software "cheat" and create RPMs (and/or DEBs) that don't
actually have proper dependencies and it might be possible to install software
that actually won't work because of missing dependencies or something. 

> 
> - Toralf
> 
> 
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Tru
> >
> >
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