INSTALL SLACK ON LINUX MINT 21.1

Slack remains an effective messaging platform that connects businesses and communities together in a peculiar space. Chatrooms on slack are called channels that connects developers, professionals and members of communities.

Pros Of Using Slack
The following are advantages of using slack in no particular order:

• Slack can be used by individuals to host files, and personal resources.

• Slack is flexible and it is available for all businesses worldwide.

• Slack is designed for businesses and allows resources to be updated at once by members in a community

• Slack allows users to search through over 10,000 messages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Download Slack For Linux
Install Dependencies
Install Slack
Conclusion

Download Slack For Linux

Update your Linux System to fetch the latest security patches from the repositories with the commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Visit the official website of slack and download the rpm version.

Note: RPM version cannot be installed on Debian based Operating Systems like Ubuntu, Linux Mint.
In this tutorial, I will use a work-around to convert the RPM version to a DEB version which is installable on Debian-based Operating Systems.

Installing Dependencies

Conversion of an rpm package to a deb package requires a linux utility called Alien. Alien is a computer conversion program that converts different linux software packages to .deb files for installation.

This is the command to install Alien:

sudo apt-get install alien

This is the downloaded rpm package at home/.../Downloads/Programs

This is the command to convert the rpm file to a deb file using the Alien utility.
sudo alien slack-4.32.122-0.1.el8.x86_64.rpm

Replace the slack package with your file version in the above command.

This prompt converts the rpm file to a debian file which can now be installed on all Debian Based Operating Systems.

Finally, we must install the .deb package on linux mint with the command:

sudo apt install ./slack_4.32.122-1.1_amd64.deb

In the terminal, we can now issue this command to check the version of slack on your system.
slack --version

Conclusion
And ta-da!, this is a working Slack-Desktop on Linux Mint.