We click on Install or Install Package.This will open Ubuntu Software or, if you use Ubuntu MATE like me, the Gdebi package installer. If at the end of the download nothing opens automatically, we double click on the downloaded file.We click on the green button that says "Download" which is below the Ubuntu and Fedora logo.To install Slack in Ubuntu we will have to follow these simple steps: But the problem is not serious, especially since they fixed a problem that prevented the installation of third-party. How do we install it in Ubuntu? With the arrival of Ubuntu 16.04, the Software Center, now called Ubuntu Software (which until recently was GNOME Software), includes more packages in the official repositories, such as the Kodi media player or the MAME emulator, but the application that interests us and what we talk about in this post not available in default repositories. We have already decided that we want to use Slack.
One of them is Telegram but, if what interests you are the groups that are more reminiscent of an IRC at the same time as modern IM applications, another interesting alternative is Slack, application that has a version for Ubuntu. It is true that WhatsApp exists, but the absence of a desktop client that does not need to be synchronized with the mobile makes us look for more interesting alternatives. Since MSN Messenger passed away, giving way to Skype, I think you will be with me that there is no messaging application that is so widespread.