CentOS - Jul 2021 - [External] Re: Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7. Does the latest version work?

On 13/07/2021 14:23, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote:
>> Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7?
>>
>> I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked
reasonably
>> well. However, after upgrading to the latest version from the 
>> Microsoft repos, it doesn't start up properly. Processes start and 
>> remain active until I give up and kill them, but I can't see a
window
>> or a tray icon or anything.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this? Is there anything I can do to make the GUI 
>> appear?
>>
>> This is not a big deal as everything just works fine if I revert to 
>> the previous release, but it would be interesting to know if this is 
>> a general problem with the software, or I have some weird issue with 
>> my system.
>>
>> The release that doesn't work is 1.4.00.13653. The one that does is
>> 1.4.00.7556.
>>
>> - Toralf
>>
>
> My wife has been using it on el7, but for the last month or two yum 
> has been complaining about broken dependencies when trying to update 
> it, so I'd disabled the Teams repo from yum updating.
OK. Do you know what dependencies that might be? Just out of interest...

I've never had any issues like that. Like I said, the latest (?) version 
installs just fine on my system, it's just that it doesn't do anything 
useful.
>
> I can check what version I'm running later for you, if that would be 
> helpful.
Well, it would be kind of interesting...

- T
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On 14/07/2021 07:28, Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 13/07/2021 14:23, Phil Perry wrote:
>> On 13/07/2021 13:02, Toralf Lund wrote:
>>> Does anyone else run Microsoft Teams on CentOS 7?
>>>
>>> I've used it for a while now, and it's generally worked
reasonably
>>> well. However, after upgrading to the latest version from the 
>>> Microsoft repos, it doesn't start up properly. Processes start
and
>>> remain active until I give up and kill them, but I can't see a
window
>>> or a tray icon or anything.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this? Is there anything I can do to make the
GUI
>>> appear?
>>>
>>> This is not a big deal as everything just works fine if I revert to
>>> the previous release, but it would be interesting to know if this
is
>>> a general problem with the software, or I have some weird issue
with
>>> my system.
>>>
>>> The release that doesn't work is 1.4.00.13653. The one that
does is
>>> 1.4.00.7556.
>>>
>>> - Toralf
>>>
>>
>> My wife has been using it on el7, but for the last month or two yum 
>> has been complaining about broken dependencies when trying to update 
>> it, so I'd disabled the Teams repo from yum updating.
> 
> OK. Do you know what dependencies that might be? Just out of interest...
> 
> I've never had any issues like that. Like I said, the latest (?)
version
> installs just fine on my system, it's just that it doesn't do
anything
> useful.
> 
>>
>> I can check what version I'm running later for you, if that would
be
>> helpful.
> 
> Well, it would be kind of interesting...
> 
> - T
> 
My currently installed/working version is:
# rpm -qa | grep teams
teams-1.4.00.7556-1.x86_64

and when I attempt a yum update, I get:

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package teams.x86_64 0:1.4.00.7556-1 will be updated
---> Package teams.x86_64 0:1.4.00.13653-1 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.8)(64bit) for 
package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit) for 
package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) for 
package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit) for 
package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.22)(64bit) for 
package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams)
            Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams)
            Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams)
            Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.21)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams)
            Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.8)(64bit)
Error: Package: teams-1.4.00.13653-1.x86_64 (teams)
            Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.22)(64bit)


So Teams now needs a newer version of libstdc++ than that in RHEL7. As 
others have mentioned, Microsoft clearly do not understand how to 
package software using RPM and you are probably better off with a 
snap/flatpak solution.

--Phil