TeamViewer

[RVDowning]

Has anyone been able to install TeamViewer? Apparently, there was a Mandriva package in the non free repositories that would have worked but it is not available any more at the ftp site.

[doktor5000]

AFAIK there was a never a non-free package of TeamViewer. What problem do you have installing it?
Here it's running fine:

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[doktor5000@mageia1 ~]$ rpm -qi teamviewer6
Name        : teamviewer6                  Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 6.0.9258                          Vendor: TeamViewer GmbH
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Do 30 Jun 2011 15:56:19 CEST
Install Date: So 06 Nov 2011 01:07:40 CET      Build Host: benutzer-desktop
Group       : Applications/Internet         Source RPM: teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.src.rpm
Size        : 87947973                         License: Proprietary; includes substantial Free Software components, notably the Wine Project.
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Do 30 Jun 2011 15:59:12 CEST, Key ID ef423ef772db573c
URL         : http://www.teamviewer.com
Summary     : TeamViewer (Remote Control Application)
Description :
TeamViewer is a remote control application. TeamViewer provides easy, fast and secure remote access to Linux, Windows PCs, and Macs.

TeamViewer is free for personal use. You can use TeamViewer completely free of charge to access your private computers or to help your friends with their computer problems.

To buy a license for commercial use, please visit http://www.teamviewer.com

[RVDowning]

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/8636

This documents the basic problem. Also, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607

[doktor5000]

You can simply install it by using

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urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps teamviewer[...]rpm

[RVDowning]

I had already tried that. Do I really want to install without any of the following dependencies?

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[root@rvddesktop rvd]# urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps teamviewer_linux.rpm


warning: teamviewer_linux.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 72db573c: NOKEY
The following package has bad signature:
teamviewer_linux.rpm: Invalid signature (NOT OK (no key): teamviewer_linux.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 72db573c: NOKEY)
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y
installing teamviewer_linux.rpm
Installation failed:
        alsa-lib(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        zlib(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        libSM(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        libXext(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        libXtst(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        libXdamage(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        libXfixes(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        libXrender(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
        freetype(x86-32) is needed by teamviewer6-6.0.9258-1.i386
Try installation without checking dependencies? (y/N)


[RVDowning]

Someone in the Mandriva forums posted a link for me to teamviewer6-6.0.9258-2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm and that installed fine.

[doktor5000]

I had already tried that. Do I really want to install without any of the following dependencies?

Yes because those dependencies are never satisfied with Mageia because they are called different.

BTW, you mean this package: ftp://ftp.mdvrb-factory.de/mandriva/201 ... 0.i586.rpm ?
For one it's against Teamviewer license because it forbids redistribution and it's also no official Mandriva package, it's a third party repo.

[RVDowning]

Ok, I uninstalled the Mandriva package and installed the original one minus the dependencies. I still can't get it to work though. I can't get a mouse click to register from the android app onto the desktop, for example to close a window, or to minimize an application, or to switch from one screen to another.

[doktor5000]

Wait, you mean you want to control your PC from an android device? Sounds more like a problem
Have you tried installing the i586 versions of the dependencies it wants?

Those should be the whole lot, which you can feed to urpmi when having i586 repos enabled:

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libfreetype6 libalsa2 libzlib1 libsm6 libxext6 libxtst6 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxrender1

Here it works fine to control all sorts of windows, mandriva and mageia boxes so far.
Even did some data-recovery via teamviewer between here in Germany and Ibiza, worked flawlessly

[RVDowning]

It was just a test to see if it worked, more out of curiosity than any need. Otherwise I don't see what teamviewer has over nxmachines.

I don't know what i586 repos you are talking about. None of the repos have "i586" in them. I only have enabled the following:
Core Release (distrib1)
Core Updates (distrib3)
Nonfree Release (distrib1)
NonFree Updates (distrib13)

[doktor5000]

Ah, sorry, i thought you had an x86_64 installation, so you'd additionaly need the repositories for i586 (32bit).
If not, simply install the packages listed above.

For the other part: Well i've never used NX, but is it also available for so many platforms?
windows, linux, mac, ios, android ...
Also recently they added browser-based remote control and other stuff,
and the option to run it the setup also as a portable teamviewer version on windows comes in handy.
Plus it's dead-easy to get someone in need for remote support to run it and only give you his
id number and password, no other setup needed.

[RVDowning]

Did a urpmi on each of the library files you listed and each is already installed.

[RVDowning]

Also, I thought TeamViewer was a bit sluggish compared to nxmachines. It turns out that "In the default configuration, TeamViewer uses one of the servers of TeamViewer.com to handle the connection and the routing of traffic between the local client and the remote host machine: so, all the traffic between the two sides goes through a third party's server."

This easily explains the sluggishness.

[doktor5000]

It turns out that "In the default configuration, TeamViewer uses one of the servers of TeamViewer.com to handle the connection and the routing of traffic between the local client and the remote host machine: so, all the traffic between the two sides goes through a third party's server."

No it does not, the server is only used to initiate the connection, in 70% of all cases then it's a direct connection between the two peers.
By default teamviewer is optimized for display quality, this could be more of a problem.

[sglafata]

I download and use the teamviewer rpm from the teamviewer website without any problems on my Mageia 64-bit, Ubuntu 32-bit, Windows 7 and Windows XP machines.

[RVDowning]

My only question is whether anyone had tried it on an Android. I can get text to register but not a mouse click. For example I haven't been able to close a window.