How To Install Zoom on CentOS
Posted on January 23, 2021 • 2 min read • 410 wordsIn this tutorial we will learn how to install zoom on CentOS.
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
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
```bash
or if wget is not available on your system you can use command below.
```bash
curl https://zoom.us/linux/download/pubkey -o pubkeyTo import GPG key we can use command below
rpm --import pubkey
```bash
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}
```bash
wget -c https://zoom.us/client/5.4.53391.1108/zoom-1_x86_64.rpmInstall Zoom
sudo yum localinstall zoom-1_x86_64.rpmEnter y to continue the installation process
Install Zoom on CentOS 7 / CentOS 8
Download Zoom Installer Package
wget -c https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_x86_64.rpm
```bash
### Install Zoom RPM package {#h-install-zoom-rpm-package}
```bash
sudo yum localinstall zoom_x86_64.rpmShow Installed Zoom Package
To show the details about zoom rpm package that we just install we can run the command below.
rpm -qi zoom
```bash
The output should be similar to output below
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## Running Zoom on CentOS {#h-running-zoom-on-centos}
To run zoom you can use command below.
```bash
zoomUninstall Zoom on CentOS
If you need to uninstall zoom from your system, you can run the following command.
sudo yum remove zoomYou can use the command above to uninstall zoom on both 32-bit and 64-bit system.
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.