[How To] Install Teamviewer

[goha]

Actually installing Linux version of Teamviewer on Odroid U2 is straightforward unless one confusing message. Anyway further I'll give step-by-step instruction.

Install and activate your ExaGear Desktop using install-exagear.sh script. In my case exagear and exagear-guest-ubuntu-1404lts packages were installed.

Launch ExaGear:

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$ exagear
Starting the shell in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/ubuntu-1404lts

Now you are in x86 environment that can be checked by running 'arch' command:

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$ arch
i686

It is recommended to update apt-get repositories in the first launch of ExaGear:

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$ sudo apt-get update

Download Teamviewer:

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$ wget http://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb

Install Teamviewer:

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$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb
Selecting previously unselected package teamviewer.
(Reading database ... 27064 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack teamviewer_linux.deb ...
Unpacking teamviewer (10.0.35002) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of teamviewer:
 teamviewer depends on libasound2; however:
  Package libasound2 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libfontconfig1; however:
  Package libfontconfig1 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libfreetype6; however:
  Package libfreetype6:i386 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libjpeg8 | libjpeg62; however:
  Package libjpeg8 is not installed.
  Package libjpeg62 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libsm6; however:
  Package libsm6 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libxdamage1; however:
  Package libxdamage1 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libxfixes3; however:
  Package libxfixes3 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libxrandr2; however:
  Package libxrandr2 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libxrender1; however:
  Package libxrender1 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on libxtst6; however:
  Package libxtst6 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package teamviewer (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 teamviewer

These are messages about Teamviewer missing dependencies. To install all of them run:

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$ sudo apt-get install -f

Within this command all Teamviewer dependencies and Teamviewer itself should be installed.

In case if you have all required dependencies preinstalled you'll see the output like this:

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$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb
Selecting previously unselected package teamviewer.
(Reading database ... 27409 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack teamviewer_linux.deb ...
Unpacking teamviewer (10.0.35002) ...
Setting up teamviewer (10.0.35002) ...
xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.


I googled the last line of the above output and learned that it means the installation does not know where to install the "startmenu" entries to and it should not pose a problem for application running.

Now simply launch Teamviewer:

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$ teamviewer

Init...
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...

In the first run the GUI with license agreement appears and if you accept it Teamviewer graphic window appears:

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I tested connection via Teamviewer from and to this Odroid device and both worked fine.

[Albynokwan]

Won't work on my Raspberry Pi2.

Installs OK, but won't launch.

[Eltechs]

Won't work on my Raspberry Pi2.

Installs OK, but won't launch.

Linux version of TeamViewer has built-in Wine that is configured for 3G/1G user/kernel virtual memory split systems. Normally all x86 systems has 3G/1G split. But the latest version of Raspbian for Raspberry Pi 2 has 2G/2G split and therefore Wine from apt-get repositories doesn't work on it. That is why we provide pre-installed Wine configured for 2G/2G split systems inside the guest x86 Debian 7.8 system inside ExaGear packages. But TeamViewer will still use its own built-in Wine for 3G/1G split systems and won't work. The only solution to run TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi 2 is to install Raspbian with 3G/1G split that you can download from here https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspb ... 015-02-02/

[roboter]

Hi all,
I'm using "2015-02-02-raspbian-wheezy.img" with RaspberryPi2 and follow all the instructions above I succeded install "teamviewer_10.0.46203_i386".
The only issue is "Not ready. Please check you connect" message.
I tried follow http://teamviewerforums.com/index.php?topic=2181.0
setting all permission on "/opt/teamviewer9/config" and also
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192406
adding "mdns4" on "/etc/nsswitch.conf" without succeed.
Pinging 178.77.120.1 works, anyone can help me?

[goha]

Hi all,
I'm using "2015-02-02-raspbian-wheezy.img" with RaspberryPi2 and follow all the instructions above I succeded install "teamviewer_10.0.46203_i386".
The only issue is "Not ready. Please check you connect" message.

I used the same Raspbian and Teamviewer and everuthing worked for me. Maybe you have connection issues in general?

[goha]

I'd like to share with all you the instruction of how to create desktop icon for TeamViewer (installed under ExaGear). I did it on Raspbian but i think it will be very similar on another Linux OS.

1. Right click with mouse on free space on desktop and select "Create file". A new file will be created on you desktop.
2. Right click with mouse on the new file and select "Edit with text editor". New file will be opened in a new window in editing mode.
2.1. Past the following text to the new file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeamViewer
Comment=TeamViewer icon
Icon=/opt/exagear/images/debian-7/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/desktop/teamviewer.png
Exec=/opt/exagear/images/debian-7/bin/bash /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Terminal=false
Categories=None;

2.2. Select "File" -> "Save" and then close the window.
3. Now you see that the new file was renamed into TeamViewer and has TeamViewer's icon view.
4. Right click on the TeamViewer icon and selecy "Options" -> "Permitions" -> "Execute" -> "Everybody". Save and exit.
5. Double click on Teamviewer icon to lunch Teamviewer.

If you prefer using the terminal then you need to create the following file with executable rights for all users:

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$ cat /home/pi/Desktop/Teamviewer.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=TeamViewer
Comment=TeamViewer icon
Icon=/opt/exagear/images/debian-7/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/desktop/teamviewer.png
Exec=/opt/exagear/images/debian-7/bin/bash   /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Terminal=false
Categories=None;


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[roboter]

Hi all,
I'm using "2015-02-02-raspbian-wheezy.img" with RaspberryPi2 and follow all the instructions above I succeded install "teamviewer_10.0.46203_i386".
The only issue is "Not ready. Please check you connect" message.

I used the same Raspbian and Teamviewer and everuthing worked for me. Maybe you have connection issues in general?

No problem with internet connection, I'm able to view internet pages:

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[goha]

Roboter,
if you still have issue with TeamViewer connection, then you might want to try the new version of ExaGear 1.2 and the latest Raspbian OS.
Eltechs has issued a specific patch that allows to run TeamViewer on all versions of Raspbian. See detailed instruction here:
http://eltechs.com/run-teamviewer-on-raspberry-pi/

[chi.nghia]

Hi,

I have same problem as roboter. The Teamviewer is running but the connection is not ready. I used the latest version of exagear with debian-8-wine2g guest image.
Please advice. What can I do?

Thank you in advance.

UPDATE: Thanks Eltechs, It's working!

[evlog]

Hi there. I just installed exagear and Teamviewer as described here:

http://eltechs.com/run-teamviewer-on-raspberry-pi/

but I cannot start the teamviewerd daemon using the teamviewer --daemon start command. When I try to start teamviewer I get the message that the daemon is not running.

Any help from exagear is welcome.