In this blog post, we will show you how to install Slack on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. Slack is the most popular collaboration software used in the corporate world. Slack enables teams to unify various forms of communications from different sources.
All Conversations in Slack are organized in channels. A channel can be used for your teams, topics, projects, or integrated with external systems such as monitoring and Project management platforms such as Jira. Communication with your teammates can be done over chats, audio or video calls, shared documents such as pdf files, images, videos, and other supported file types.
How To Install Slack on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
Use our guide to install Slack on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. The only pre-requisite is installed CentOS / RHEL workstation.
Step 1: Update system
As a norm, we work on updated Linux system.
sudo yum -y update && sudo yum -y install wgetStep 2: Download and Install Slack
Now visit Slack download page and download the latest Slack RPM release and install it.
sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
wget https://downloads.slack-edge.com/releases/linux/4.35.126/prod/x64/slack-4.35.126-0.1.el8.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum localinstall slack-4.35.126-0.1.el8.x86_64.rpmProceed to install the package and its dependencies:
Dependencies resolved.
Transaction Summary
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Install 7 Packages
Total size: 66 M
Total download size: 480 k
Installed size: 210 M
Is this ok [y/N]: yMore details about installed RPM package can be queried using.
$ rpm -qi slack
Name : slack
Version : 4.35.126
Release : 0.1.el8
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Sun 26 Nov 2023 08:58:09 PM UTC
Group : Unspecified
Size : 289115124
License : MIT
Signature : RSA/SHA512, Wed 01 Nov 2023 04:11:25 PM UTC, Key ID 262281b2dde0f7a1
Source RPM : slack-4.35.126-0.1.el8.src.rpm
Build Date : Wed 01 Nov 2023 04:08:28 PM UTC
Build Host : 557b062a8be3
Relocations : /usr
URL : https://github.com/tinyspeck/slack-desktop.git
Summary : Slack DesktopStep 3: Start and Use Slack
Now that Slack is installed on your CentOS / RHEL 8 desktop, you can launch it through the command line,
$ slackor from the Activities section of Gnome DE.
Then sign in to Slack using your Organization account to start using Slack.
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