Slack is a Cloud-based software that provides a team collaboration tool and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield. Slack offers a lot of IRC-like (Internet Relay Chat) features such as persistent chat room channel organized by topic. Slack can be searchable including files, conversation, and people.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation Slack on an Ubuntu 18.04 bionic beaver.
Install Slack on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running these following apt-get commands in the terminal.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Step 2. Installing Slack on Ubuntu.
Go to the Slack for Linux download page and download the latest Slack .deb package:
wget https://downloads.slack-edge.com/linux_releases/slack-desktop-3.3.8-amd64.deb
Install Slack by running the following command as a user with sudo privileges:
sudo apt install ./slack-desktop-*.deb
Step 3. Start Slack.
Now that you have Slack installed on your Ubuntu desktop, you can start it either from the command line by typing slack or by clicking on the Slack icon (Activities -> Slack).
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Slack. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Slack in Ubuntu 18.04 bionic beaver system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Slack website.