Microsoft In Tune for Linux on Kubuntu

[jglen490]

Has anyone had any experience with the MS In Tune application install for Linux under Kubuntu. The installation instructions provided by MS are specified for Ubuntu, and one would think that they would apply to Kubuntu (same OS), except that Kubuntu repo management is a bit different from Ubuntu repo management. MS instructions are at: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/in...tune-app-linux

The company I work for encourages the use of personal equipment to access company HR and timekeeping applications, and so to provide cyber security their resources require the installation of the MS InTune application, in order to do so. Normally, I'll just use my customer provided Windows laptop to take care of the required timekeeping, but is would be useful to have my personal laptop available to access various company information resources.

I've tried the the MS provided steps, which seem reasonable for Ubuntu, but they don't quite work for Kubuntu due to the repo management differences. Any thoughts?

[oshunluvr]

What specific repo management differences??

[jglen490]

My understanding is that the list of repos is a directory structure of repos in Kubuntu. When I follow the instructions given from the MS site, they LOOK as if they should create a right repo entry, but I run them no repo is added - anywhere (sources.list or sources.list.d).

[Snowhog]

When I follow the instructions given from the MS site, they LOOK as if they should create a right repo entry, but I run them no repo is added - anywhere (sources.list or sources.list.d).

Works here on Kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. Did you copy the command fully? This is the complete command to add the repository as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-ubuntu-noble-prod.list:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs)/prod $(lsb_release -cs) main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -cs)-prod.list'
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[jglen490]

O.K. thanks. It's possible that I messed up something on the copy/paste. I'll try it again tonight. It looked like it should work, and I'm also on 24.04.2.

[oshunluvr]

Looks like the instructions from MS are out of date or just wrong **SHOCKER**

I got it to work here on Ubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04 the same way. The only issue was the Intune app is in the "Lost and Found" folder in kmenu.

Try running these in your home folder:

sudo apt install curl gpg
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo sh -c 'echo "[ATTACH=JSON]{"data-align":"none","data-size":"full","title":"Screenshot_20250501_160408.jpg","data-attachmentid":686493}[/ATTACH]​deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs)/prod $(lsb_release -cs) main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-ubuntu-$(lsb_release -cs)-prod.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install intune-portal
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[jglen490]

Well the curl operation fails, I copied it exactly and it pasted as copied:

johng@john-hpenvy:/media/johng$ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > micro
soft.gpg
bash: microsoft.gpg: Permission denied
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 983 100 983 0 0 3679 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 3681
curl: Failed writing body

[jglen490]

O.K., just saw my fail. I copied it to a directory with my user name. The problem is it was in my /media directory, so of course IT FAILED

[oshunluvr]

See "Try running these in your home folder:" above, LOL!

[jglen490]

It installed Intune pretty much the way it was supposed to, thanks to oshunluvr and Snowhog . However - comma - space - I could not enroll the installation with the company. It appears that there MAY be a Java versioning issue, and the error screen has the same error code that was displaying in some "help" posts. I'm not messing with it any further, not that having multiple Java versions is impossible or even impractical, I'm done with Intune on Linux.

I will, however, give it a try on a spare, not old, Android tablet that I now have thanks to my older son.

I get that security is really important in this day and age of weird people doing weird stuff, just for the helluvit. But, everything that I need to do with my company's processes is BEST done in a browser and already uses things like MFA, so trying to run an Ubuntu flavor with a Microsoft application is going to be an issue in almost every situation. I don't need desktop apps, and that may not be understandable to the company.

In the meantime, I just use my customer's provided Windows laptop to do what needs to be done - until the customer enforces not bringing the laptop home at night

[oshunluvr]

What about a Windows VM?

[jglen490]

Well, not a bad idea, other than experiential virginity But, I'm going to see what the company has to say about all this, first!