How To Install Zoom on CentOS

January 23, 2021 in Tutorial2 minutes

Introduction {#h-introduction} In this tutorial we will learn how to install zoom on CentOS. Zoom is a video conferencing, web conferencing and webinars software that enable people to do meeting, class and seminars online. Zoom popularity highly increased when covid-19 pandemic start around march 2020. This tutorial tested in CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and CentOS 8. You should be able to follow this tutorial in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux and also Fedora Linux with no changes or minimum changes. ## Download and Import Zoom GPG Key {#h-download-and-import-zoom-gpg-key} Zoom rpm packages is being signed with GPG key. To avoid missing signing key by package management we need to download and import Zoom’s GPG key To download Zoom’s GPG key we can use command below. wget -c https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey or if wget is not available on your system you can use command below. curl https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey -o pubkey To import GPG key we can use command below rpm --import pubkey Zoom have different rpm package for CentOS 6 and for CentOS 7 / CentOS 8. We will learn how to install them separately ## Install Zoom on CentOS 6 {#h-install-zoom-on-centos-6} ### Download Zoom Installer Package {#h-download-zoom-installer-package} wget -c https://zoom.us/client/5.4.53391.1108/zoom-1_x86_64.rpm ### Install Zoom {#h-install-zoom} sudo yum localinstall zoom-1_x86_64.rpm Enter y to continue the installation process ## Install Zoom on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8 {#h-install-zoom-on-centos-7-centos-8} ### Download Zoom Installer Package {#h-download-zoom-installer-package-1} wget -c https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm ### Install Zoom RPM package {#h-install-zoom-rpm-package} sudo yum localinstall zoom_x86_64.rpm ### Show Installed Zoom Package {#h-show-installed-zoom-package} To show the details about zoom rpm package that we just install we can run the command below. rpm -qi zoom The output should be similar to output below install zoom centos - show zoom rpm package detail ## Running Zoom on CentOS {#h-running-zoom-on-centos} To run zoom you can use command below. zoom ## Uninstall Zoom on CentOS {#h-uninstall-zoom-on-centos} If you need to uninstall zoom from your system, you can run the following command. sudo yum remove zoom You can use the command above to uninstall zoom on both 32-bit and 64-bit system. ## Summary {#h-summary} In this tutorial we learn how to install Zoom on CentOS. We learn to install different rpm package for CentOS 6 and for CentOS 7 / 8. We also learn how to show the detail of zoom rpm package and how to uninstall zoom from CentOS.