How to Install Anydesk on Ubuntu 20.4.1

To Install Anydesk on Ubuntu 20.04.1

Introduction:

AnyDesk is the world’s most convenient open-source remote desktop application to access all the programs, documents and files from anywhere, without having to entrust your data to a cloud service.

Installation Process:

Check the Os version by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

Before Installation update the repository files by using the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                  
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB] 
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [101 kB]
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Get:12 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [1,768 B]                          
Fetched 3,005 kB in 17s (181 kB/s)                                                                                           
Reading package lists... Done

Download the anydesk package by using the below command

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://download.anydesk.com/linux/anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb
--2020-12-16 16:45:12--  https://download.anydesk.com/linux/anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb
Resolving download.anydesk.com (download.anydesk.com)... 188.40.104.135, 2a01:4f8:1c1c:204e::1
Connecting to download.anydesk.com (download.anydesk.com)|188.40.104.135|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5197638 (5.0M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb’
anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb       100%[=====================================================>]   4.96M   277KB/s    in 20s     
2020-12-16 16:45:36 (252 KB/s) - ‘anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb’ saved [5197638/5197638]

Install anydesk by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# dpkg -i anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package anydesk.
(Reading database ... 218138 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack anydesk_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb ...
Failed to stop anydesk.service: Unit anydesk.service not loaded.
Unpacking anydesk (6.0.1) ...
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 hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
anydesk

Install the dependencies to sort the error

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libgtkglext1 libpangox-1.0-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgtkglext1 libpangox-1.0-0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 251 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 116 kB of archives.
After this operation, 569 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libpangox-1.0-0 amd64 0.0.2-5ubuntu1 [41.9 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libgtkglext1 amd64 1.2.0-9 [74.0 kB]
Fetched 116 kB in 0s (268 kB/s)    
Selecting previously unselected package libpangox-1.0-0:amd64.
(Reading database ... 218156 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpangox-1.0-0_0.0.2-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpangox-1.0-0:amd64 (0.0.2-5ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libgtkglext1:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../libgtkglext1_1.2.0-9_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgtkglext1:amd64 (1.2.0-9) ...
Setting up libpangox-1.0-0:amd64 (0.0.2-5ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libgtkglext1:amd64 (1.2.0-9) ...
Setting up anydesk (6.0.1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/anydesk.service → /etc/systemd/system/anydesk.service.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ...

Go to Ubuntu dashboard and type AnyDesk, it shows the application icon, click on it to open it. You can see that the application is now open. With this method, the installation of the AnyDesk on Ubuntu 20.4.1 is comes to end.