diff --git a/roles/desktop-common/tasks/packages.yml b/roles/desktop-common/tasks/packages.yml
index c0bb6cb..23376c2 100644
--- a/roles/desktop-common/tasks/packages.yml
+++ b/roles/desktop-common/tasks/packages.yml
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@
       - "https://downloads.slack-edge.com/linux_releases/slack-desktop-4.8.0-amd64.deb"
       - "https://github.com/MultiMC/MultiMC5/releases/download/0.6.8/multimc_1.4-1.deb"
       - "https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb"
+    # We ignore errors here in case we have a more up-to-date package on the target machine and/or face a URL timeout
+    ignore_errors: yes
   - name: Install desktop applications through pip3
     pip:
       executable: "/usr/bin/pip3"