This article details the process on how to install TeamViewer on Ubuntu & CentOS systems. Team viewer needs no introduction, it is being used for years for remotely accessing a system over the internet. Teamviewer is known as All in One solution for remote access & support over the internet. Within only a few seconds of time, TeamViewer can connect to any PC or server over the internet.
It also provides a number of features like;
- Session recordings & conversion to AVI,
- Drag & drop files,
- Multi-monitor support
Let's first start out with the installation of TeamViewer for Ubuntu.
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Install TeamViewer on Ubuntu
We will firstly download the .deb package of TeamViewer for Ubuntu OS, to download the package open the terminal & run it,
$ wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
Once we have the downloaded package, we can install it using three different methods,
1- Using GUI, double click teamviewer_linux.deb & it will open the package in Ubuntu Software Center, click on ‘Install’ & then authenticate by entering the administrative password. Team Viewer will then be installed on the machine.
2- Using apt-get, firstly move the package to ‘/var/cache/apt/archives’ & then run
$ sudo apt-get install teamviewer_linux.deb
from the terminal. Enter your administrative password & the package will then be installed on the system.
3- Using dpkg, the third way is by using dpkg. Open the terminal & execute the following command,
$ dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb
Once the TeamViewer for Ubuntu has been installed using any of the three methods, we can run it from the terminal by typing,
$ teamviewer
or we can also locate in under applications.
Install TeamViewer on CentOS /RHEL
For CentOS, we will first have to install some dependencies before we can actually install the package for Teamviewer. To install dependencies, run
$ yum install glibc alsa-lib freetype libICE libSM libX11 libXau libXdamage libXext libXfixes libXi libXrandr libXrender libXtst libgcc libuuid libxcb zlib
After these dependencies have been installed, we will download the teamviewer rpm package,
$ wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer.i686.rpm
After downloading the package, we can install it using two methods,
1- Using yum, from the terminal run the following command,
$ yum install teamviewer.i686.rpm
2 – Using rpm, we can also use the following command to install the TeamViewer rpm package on the system,
$ rpm -ivh teamviewer.i686.rpm
After the installation of the package, run
$ teamviewer
from the terminal to start using the teamviewer on the system.
This completes our tutorial on how to install TeamViewer for Ubuntu & CentOS, please feel free to leave your suggestions/queries in the comment box below.
