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How to install Team Viewer on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Team Viewer on Ubuntu 17.04

Teamviewer is an open source application to connect to any remote desktop around the world. TeamViewer is a remote access application that grants you access to other computer and allows you to work on it. It is widely used for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. It is also possible to access a machine running TeamViewer with a web browser. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Teamviewer on Ubuntu 17.04.

Features

  1. Remote QuickSteps.
  2. Service case notifications. Take swift action on pop-up and email notifications.
  3. Remote Sticky Note.
  4. Provides screen sharing with frame rates up to 60 fps (frames per second). No stuttering, no lag.
  5. Faster file transfer

Installation procedure

To proceed with the installation procedure, first install gdebi installer. It is a debian package installer and run the following command to install gdebi installer. 

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install gdebi-core -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gdebi-core
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 281 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,758 B of archives.
After this operation, 135 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 gdebi-core all 0.9.5.7+nmu1 [9,758 B]
Fetched 9,758 B in 6s (1,449 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package gdebi-core.
(Reading database ... 172116 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gdebi-core_0.9.5.7+nmu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking gdebi-core (0.9.5.7+nmu1) ...
Setting up gdebi-core (0.9.5.7+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...

Next download Team Viewer on the target system by executing the wget command followed by the download link, 

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
--2017-10-07 17:41:54--  https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
Resolving download.teamviewer.com (download.teamviewer.com)... 46.163.100.218, 46.163.100.216, 46.163.100.214, ...
Connecting to download.teamviewer.com (download.teamviewer.com)|46.163.100.218|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://dl.tvcdn.de/download/version_12x/teamviewer_12.0.85001_i386.deb [following]
--2017-10-07 17:41:56--  https://dl.tvcdn.de/download/version_12x/teamviewer_12.0.85001_i386.deb
Resolving dl.tvcdn.de (dl.tvcdn.de)... 54.230.188.176
Connecting to dl.tvcdn.de (dl.tvcdn.de)|54.230.188.176|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46549564 (44M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ teamviewer_i386.deb’ 
teamviewer_i386.deb 100%[===================> ]  44.39M  1.01MB/s    in 60s     

2017-10-07 17:42:57 (760 KB/s) - ‘ teamviewer_i386.deb’  saved [46549564/46549564]

Install the Team viewer application using gdebi command by executing the following command. 

root@linuxhelp:~# gdebi teamviewer_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 libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dbg libc6-dev libc6:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libexpat1 libexpat1:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libgcrypt20 libgcrypt20:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libice6:i386 libjpeg62:i386 liblz4-1:i386 liblzma5:i386 libnss-resolve libpam-systemd libpcre3:i386 libpng16-16:i386 libselinux1:i386 libsm6:i386 libsystemd0 libsystemd0:i386 libuuid1 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 linux-libc-dev systemd 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.
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-1) ...

The Team Viewer is installed in the target system. Now go to Ubuntu dashboard and type Team Viewer. Click on the icon to run the application. The license agreement of the Team Viewer appears on the screen, click Accept License Agreement option.

The Team Viewer application is running successfully. Now you can remote control other systems by using various options.

Thus concludes the installation procedure of Team Viewer on Ubuntu 17.04

Tag : TeamViewer Ubuntu
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nihalparande
Feb 08 2018
after downloading teamviewer not installing.
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FAQ
Q
What is team viewer?
A
*Team Viewer is an open source that allows us to take the remote control of Linux box via the Internet.

*It establishes incoming/outgoing remote connections to other computers.
Q
How can I Upgrade Teamviewer on Ubuntu?
A
upgrade Teamviewer, you first need to uninstall/remove the old version. This is done using the following command

#apt-get purge teamviewer
Q
Whether Is Team Viewer secure?
A
TeamViewer traffic is secured using RSA public/private key exchange and AES (256-bit) session encryption. This technology is used in a comparable form for https/SSL and is considered complete
Q
Whether is a TeamViewer file transfer will secure?
A
TeamViewer file transfer, you can, for example, send attachments that are too large for your email, or transfer files to your media server, or share large amounts of data without an FTP serve
Q
how to find the log files of teamviewer?
A
Please run the command as follow # teamviewer ziplog