How To Install Teamviewer 12 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Teamviewer offer full feature remote desktop control, file sharing, networking ... etc in personal use license.
For Ubuntu users, this program unable locate in Ubuntu Software Center,and users have to manually download and install its dependency.

First, download the Teamviewer package installer file from https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux/ , it will download in extension .deb format. This .deb installer file require many dependency package, user can use gdebi package installer to automatic handle all require dependencies.
Use the following command to install the gdebi command line package installer.
sudo apt install gdebi-core

This installation process may take some period of time, after that restart your Ubuntu system.

In Terminal, navigate to Teamviewer package downloaded location, use the following command to install it.

sudo gdebi teamviewer*.deb

This command will check and list out all dependencies, key in Y and press enter to continue installation.

When complete installation, it will show in Installed Application menu. In order to use Teamviewer on Linux, the TeamViewer remote control daemon must be running. You can check out its status by executing the command below.

systemctl status teamviewerd

Command for manually start the Teamviewer daemon

systemctl status teamviewerd

Command to enable autostart when boot is

sudo systemctl enable teamviewerd


Teamviewer is installed under /opt/teamviewer/ directory

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