Objective
The objective is to install TeamViewer the remote control and desktop sharing software on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux
Requirements
Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo command is required.
Difficulty
EASY
Conventions
- # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of
sudocommand - $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user
Instructions
Prerequisites
We will be using gdebi command to install TeamViewer as it allows us to automatically download all required TeamViewer dependencies. If you have not done so yet install gdebi package:
$ sudo apt-get install gdebi
TeamViewer download
At the time of writing only multi-arch TeamViewer package is available. Use your browser to download Ubuntu version of TeamViewer or execute the below wget command, while updating the below URL is necessary:
$ wget https://downloadus2.teamviewer.com/download/version_12x/teamviewer_12.0.71510_i386.deb
Enable Multi-arch
TeamViewer package also depends on 32bit binaries. From this reason, we need to enable multi-arch on our system by inclusion of i386 repositories:
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Install TeamViewer
At this stage we are ready to install TeamViewer on our Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux desktop. Execute the below gdebi command:
$ sudo gdebi teamviewer_12.0.71510_i386.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading state information... Done Requires the installation of the following packages: gcc-6-base:i386 libasound2:i386 libc6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libexpat1:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libgcrypt20:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libice6:i386 libjpeg62:i386 liblzma5:i386 libpcre3:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libselinux1:i386 libsm6:i386 libsystemd0:i386 libuuid1:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1:i386 libxtst6:i386 zlib1g:i386 Remote control and meeting solution. TeamViewer provides easy, fast and secure remote access and meeting solutions to Linux, Windows PCs, Apple PCs and various other platforms, including Android and iPhone. . TeamViewer is free for personal use. You can use TeamViewer completely free of charge to access your private computers or to help your friends with their computer problems. . To buy a license for commercial use, please visit http://www.teamviewer.com . This package contains Free Software components. For details, see /opt/teamviewer/doc/license_foss.txt Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Start TeamViewer
TeamViewer is now installed and you can start it from command terminal by running:
$ teamviewer
command or by clicking on TeamViewer’s icon from Ubuntu’s start menu.
