Manjaro and Zoom

Support Third-Party Software
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Hi! I just began my Manjaro love affair yesterday, beginning with a Raspberry Pi 4 and spreading like a cancer among 4 Lenovo thinkpads and a Dell Inspiron. I love this OS Distro! I have one machine I use for online meetings, using Zoom. I’m the admin and chair for those meetings, so Zoom is a must. Of course Zoom distros don’t include one specifically for Manjaro. I’m just checking with you to see if there is a known workaround or something. Thanks for being here!

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This might help. I’ve only scanned it but…

Arch or Manjaro

Using a graphical installer

Follow these steps if you have the Pamac graphical package manager. Most Arch-based distros have it installed by default (e.g. Manjaro).

  1. Download the TAR.XZ installer file from our Download Center.
  2. Open the download location using a file manager.
  3. Double click the TAR.XZ installer file to open it in Pamac.
    Pamac will display the required dependencies that will be installed with Zoom.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Enter you admin password when prompted.

Note: If you are having issues installing the required dependencies, use the package manager to update the system.

Using the terminal

  1. Download the TAR.XZ installer file from our Download Center.

  2. Open the download location using a file manager.

  3. Right click in the file manager and click Terminal to open the terminal in the current location.

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  4. Type in the following command and press Enter to run it.

    sudo pacman -U zoom_x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

  5. Enter your admin password and continue the installation when prompted.
    Pacman will also download and install the required dependencies

Uninstalling Zoom

If you want to uninstall, run the following command in the terminal. This will also remove all dependencies not required by other installed applications.

 sudo pacman -Rs zoom
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Welcome to the Manjaro community @Scribe2

zoom is available from the AUR (as it has been since 2015):

It can be installed with the following command:

pamac build zoom

Note for newbies: never use sudo with pamac. pamac uses polkit for authentication and will ask for your password when required.

pamac info zoom 
❯ pamac info zoom
Name                  : zoom
Version               : 7.1.5-1
Description           : Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service
URL                   : https://zoom.us/
Licenses              : LicenseRef-zoom
Repository            : AUR
Groups                : --
Depends On            : fontconfig glib2 libpulse libsm ttf-font libx11 libxtst
                        libxcb libxcomposite libxfixes libxi libxcursor
                        libxkbcommon-x11 libxrandr libxrender libxshmfence
                        libxslt mesa nss xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms
                        xcb-util-cursor dbus libdrm gtk3 xcb-util-wm
Optional Dependencies : pulseaudio-alsa
                        ibus
                        picom
                        xcompmgr
                        qt5-webengine
                        qt5-remoteobjects
                        noto-fonts-emoji [Installed]
Make Dependencies     : --
Check Dependencies    : --
Provides              : --
Replaces              : zoom-libs-bin zoom-libs
Conflicts With        : --
Maintainer            : edh
First Submitted       : Sat 15 Aug 2015 23:18:14
Last Modified         : Tue 21 Jul 2026 21:47:53
Votes                 : 744
Out of Date           : --

You can also install it via Manjaro’s Add/Remove Software package manager GUI - just make sure that you have enabled the AUR in Preferences → Third Party.

Important - read before using the AUR :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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Just an FYI, Christian Heusel (gromit) is one of the zoom AUR package maintainers. He is also an Arch Package Maintainer so it’s a safe package to install.

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From my understanding, the zoom AUR package just downloads and installs the official package from the zoom website.

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@tracyanne Thank you so much! I’ll give it a try.

@scotty65 Thank you very much! I’ll try it.

I’m surprised, impressed, and grateful for everyone’s replies!! Thank you so very much. This is GREAT support for a great OS.

Mod edit: Consecutive posts merged, @mentions added. :wink:

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Instead of installing the zoom AUR package, you can simply login to the zoom web app at https://zoom.us and manage meetings directly from the browser.

The benefit of this approach is that you don’t need to enable the AUR nor install any additional package on the client device : the web app can be accessed from most modern browsers.

The web app allows users to screen share, capture + broadcast voice, and capture + broadcast video to conference participants. You just need to select yes when the browser asks you for certain authorisations.

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Thank you, @rousseau ! That’s the simplest solution and is my plan until I install it.

Update: Feeling foolish after simply goig to the Zoom site, USING THE SCROLL BAR to find Arch Linux on their list, and downloading the package, which installed in very short order. Thanks again, everyone, for your help!! SOLVED! Do I need to edit this thread somehow to mark it “solved?”

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It’s already marked as solved. If you want to change which reply is the solution, click the … to the left of Reply and click the button.

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@Scribe2 Isn’t it a bit selfish to mark your own reply as the solution right after thanking someone? :wink: