When an IT administrator installs the Slack desktop app to all of their employees' machines, it will install to the /Applications folder and update automatically whenever a new version of Slack is released. As an IT administrator, you can gain more control over Slack app installation and updates by choosing where to install the app and disabling automatic updates.
Note: If you disable automatic updates, we recommend updating the app regularly to make sure you’re running the most secure version and have access to new features.
Slack can be used by multiple users on the same machine. You can install Slack to a user’s /Applications or ~/Applications folder. Slack download osx. Compare the two methods below to determine which installation is right for your organization.
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Download Slack for free for mobile devices and desktop. Keep up with the conversation with our apps for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux. If Slack is installed to /Applications, users must be administrators of their Mac machines and have write access to slack.app and all files beneath it in order to update. On a shared machine, we recommend IT administrators create a permissions group for all Slack users.
- All users on the machine use the same installation of Slack.
- Updates made to Slack apply for all users on the machine.
- Users must be administrators to update Slack.
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- Each user on a shared machine will have their own installation of Slack.
- Updates made to one instance of Slack do not affect other users on the same machine.
- Users do not need to be administrators to update Slack.
You can disable automatic updates on a per-user basis. This is helpful for testing new versions of the Slack app before releasing them, or for gradually rolling out app updates. To maintain app reliability and security, we recommend updating Slack whenever a new app version is released.
To prevent Slack from automatically checking for updates, run the following terminal command as each user who will be running Slack.
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defaults write /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.plist SlackNoAutoUpdates -bool YES
Use the following command to re-enable automatic updates.
defaults write /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap.plist SlackNoAutoUpdates -bool NO
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If Slack is installed to ~/Applications, users can update the app without special permissions. If Slack is installed to /Applications, users must be administrators of their Mac machines and have write access to slack.app and all files beneath it in order to update.
On a shared machine, we recommend IT administrators create a permissions group for all Slack users. You can then grant ownership and write access to that permissions group using the following terminal command. Replace example with the name of your permission group:
chown -R :example /Applications/Slack.app && chmod -R 755 /Applications/Slack.app
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Tip: We have an RSS feed to notify you of new Mac Slack Desktop App updates: https://slack.com/release-notes/mac/rss. Learn how to add RSS feeds to your Slack workflow.