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How to install teamviewer on Linux mint 18.3

To install Teamviewer on Linux Mint 18.3

Teamviewer is an open source remote access application used for connecting any remote desktop around the world.It 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. It is so simple to install Teamviewer on Linux Mint 18.3 and this tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

Installation

To proceed with the installation, first, install gdebi installer, a Debian package installer. Run the following command to install gdebi installer.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install gdebi-core -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
gdebi-core is already the newest version (0.9.5.7xmint5).


Since in this machine, it is already installed, we continue to proceed to download Team Viewer on the target system by executing the wget command followed by the download link,

linuxhelp ~ # wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
--2018-03-22 03:11:24--  https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
Resolving download.teamviewer.com (download.teamviewer.com)... 52.187.2.110
Connecting to download.teamviewer.com (download.teamviewer.com)|52.187.2.110|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://dl.tvcdn.de/download/version_12x/teamviewer_12.0.93330_i386.deb [following]
--2018-03-22 03:11:24--  https://dl.tvcdn.de/download/version_12x/teamviewer_12.0.93330_i386.deb
Resolving dl.tvcdn.de (dl.tvcdn.de)... 54.230.188.115, 2600:9000:203e:7200:c:b82f:7ac7:2cc1, 2600:9000:203e:5800:c:b82f:7ac7:2cc1, ...
Connecting to dl.tvcdn.de (dl.tvcdn.de)|54.230.188.115|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 46842856 (45M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ teamviewer_i386.deb’ 

teamviewer_i386.deb                  100%[====================================================================> ]  44.67M  1.12MB/s    in 41s     

2018-03-22 03:12:05 (1.10 MB/s) - ‘ teamviewer_i386.deb’  saved [46842856/46842856]

Now, you shall install the Team viewer application using the gdebi command by executing the following command.

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:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libgcrypt20 libgcrypt20:i386 libgpg-error0:i386 libice6:i386 libjpeg62:i386 liblzma5:i386 libpam-systemd libpcre3:i386 libpng12-0: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 systemd zlib1g:i386 

.
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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Selecting previously unselected package teamviewer:i386.
(Reading database ... 220004 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack teamviewer_i386.deb ...
Unpacking teamviewer:i386 (12.0.93330) ...
Setting up teamviewer:i386 (12.0.93330) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

The Team Viewer is installed on the target system. Now go to the menu and search team viewer

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.

With this, the method to install team viewer on Linux Mint 18.3 comes to an end.

FAQ
Q
How to download teamviewer from the terminal ?
A
To download teamviewer from the terminal use the folllowing command

wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_i386.deb
Q
What is Teamviewer ?
A
Teamviewer is an open source remote access application used for connecting any remote desktop around the world.It grants you access to other computer and allows you to work on it.
Q
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
Is TeamViewer file transfer 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 Team viewer?
A
execute the command as follow
"#teamviewer ziplog".