How To Install AnyDesk on Linux Mint 18.3
To Install AnyDesk on Linux Mint 18.3
AnyDesk is the open source remote desktop application. It is one of the world’ s most comfortable remote desktop application. Access all your programs, documents and files from anywhere, without having to entrust your data to a cloud service. You can say it’ s an alternative of the TeamViewer, which is available free. AnyDesk provides the faster remote connection than any other existing remote desktop application. The method to install AnyDesk on Linux Mint 18.3 is covered in this tutorial.
Installing AnyDesk
First, make sure you have updated your system by making use of the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 204 kB in 1s (160 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Once it is done, you shall download package by making use of the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://download.anydesk.com/linux/anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd64.deb
--2018-02-21 23:44:31-- https://download.anydesk.com/linux/anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd64.deb
Resolving download.anydesk.com (download.anydesk.com)... 188.40.104.135, 2a01:4f8:221:2841::2
Connecting to download.anydesk.com (download.anydesk.com)|188.40.104.135|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3110288 (3.0M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd64.deb’
anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd 100%[===================> ] 2.97M 720KB/s in 5.2s
2018-02-21 23:44:38 (580 KB/s) - ‘ anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd64.deb’ saved [3110288/3110288]
Once it is done, install AnkyDesk by executing the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# dpkg -i anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package anydesk.
(Reading database ... 180446 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack anydesk_2.9.5-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking anydesk (2.9.5-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of anydesk:
anydesk depends on libgtkglext1 however:
Package libgtkglext1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package anydesk (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
Anydesk
You will notice dependency errors, so run the following command to fix and install it.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gnome-software-common libgtkspell3-3-0 Use ' sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: libgtkglext1 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgtkglext1 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 594 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 76.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 444 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libgtkglext1 amd64 1.2.0-3.2fakesync1ubuntu1 [76.8 kB] Fetched 76.8 kB in 0s (87.6 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libgtkglext1:amd64. (Reading database ... 180463 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libgtkglext1_1.2.0-3.2fakesync1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libgtkglext1:amd64 (1.2.0-3.2fakesync1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ... Setting up libgtkglext1:amd64 (1.2.0-3.2fakesync1ubuntu1) ... Setting up anydesk (2.9.5-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
You shall now open Anydesk on the terminal by making use of the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# anydesk
The Anydesk application now appears on the screen.
You can check the AnyDesk version and other information related to it.
With this, the method to install AnyDesk on Linux Mint 18.3
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