You’ll re-install them in just a bit, getting the right versions: sudo apt remove freerdp2-x11 gstreamer1.0-nice libfarstream-0.2-5 libfreerdp-client2-2 libfreerdp-server2-2 libfreerdp-shadow-subsystem2-2 libfreerdp-shadow2-2 libfreerdp2-2 libnice10 libwinpr-tools2-2 libwinpr2-2 pidgin pidgin-data pidgin-libnotify pidgin-sipe remmina remmina-common remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret remmina-plugin-vncĢ) The remmina components have a way of sticking around.
If you need only chat, install just the pidgin and pidgin-sipe packages, then proceed to setup your account.īut for (nearly) full functionality, read on: Package Installġ) First, it really helps to nuke all related packages. In the following instructions, most of the packages are used for desktop viewing/sharing. You’ll have most of the S4B functionality, including The below are instructions for two versions of Ubuntu similar things should work on other distros. It’s similar to HPE MyRoom (recommended, free) or Microsoft Teams, both of which run fine on Linux.īut Skype-for-business on Linux never got much love from Microsoft, so you’ll have to do a few things described here to use it on Linux.
Skype-for-business (S4B), formerly called Lync, formerly called Office Communicator, is meeting collaboration software. For other Linux distros I imagine the steps are similar. Here’s instructions to run Skype-for-Business on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. If you have to attend a conference call on Skype-for-Linux (not plain Skype) - we had to run a Windows VM or similar to do it. Sometimes we Linux types are forced into the Micro$oft world.