What will happen to the third-party package TeamViewer ?

penny-farthing

Currently, in the third-party packages of Solus Software Center, TeamViewer is listed.

Previous posts have informed us that Solus Software Center will eventually be replaced by Gnome Software Center or KDE Discover.

However, TeamViewer is not listed in the first one that I use, because my daily desktop is Solus Budgie.
Will it be included or will there be an alternative to replace it?
(I sometimes troubleshoot friends who encounter an anomaly that they do not understand on their computer)

Thanks by advance for your feedback.

alfisya

The plan still stands, Third Party package is not going to be supported in the future. Teamviewer uses propietary license, so we cannot include it on our repository. Unfortunately it is not available on Flathub or Snap, hence not available in new software centers. The only way to get it officially is from their website, you can download the tarball from this page.

If I may suggest, you can try the alternatives. I prefer Anydesk and it is available in Flathub. You can install it from Gnome Software. I heard good things about Rustdesk, but I never tried it. I would guess none of this an ideal solution for you but that is how it is.

Anyway, cheers!

penny-farthing

alfisya

Thank you for reminding me of the Anydesk software. I have had the opportunity to use it on Android in the past and it is indeed a very good alternative to TeamViewer, it's a good alternative to TeamViewer, especially as it doesn't include any trackers.

However, it is a pity to have to do without TeamViewer, which is an excellent application, but due to its proprietary nature, I can understand that it cannot be retained by Solus.

Sebastian

"Wunderbar!" as I should say in your native language (Wonderful! in English).

So here is what I did:

I took your script and added a test for the existence of the programs folder:

#!/bin/bash
clear
### path for teamviever is ~/programs/ in this case
### you can change this path to whatever suits you
FOLDER=~/programs/          

if [ -d "$FOLDER" ]; then
    echo "The folder exist ($FOLDER)."
else
    echo "The folder does not exist ($FOLDER). It will be created."
    mkdir $FOLDER
fi
sleep 1
cd ~/programs/
rm -R ~/programs/teamviewer
## this will delete  ~/programs/teamviewer
## so make sure you do not have by chance a directory ~/programs/teamviewer
## that contains important data
archiv=https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer_amd64.tar.xz
wget $archiv
tar -xf teamviewer*.tar.xz
rm teamviewer*.tar.xz
notify-send 'TeamViewer Update complete'
exit

(NB. It is wget that is installed in Solus Budgie)

then after naming it teamviewer_update.sh and authorizing it to launch as a program, I executed it
then, I typed the terminal command ~/programs/teamviewer/teamviewer, which created the teamviewer.desktop file that I then copied to the .local/share/applications folder
As I use TeamViewer occasionally, I will first launch the script next time, then go to the launch application menu.

Thanks again for your excellent suggestion. 👍️

Sebastian

I am in a similar situation. Every now and then I use teamviewer for my parents computer.
As teamviewer has a static download link to the last release, it't easy to have a script updating teamvier:

#!/bin/bash
clear
### path for teamviever is ~/programs/ in this case.
### you can change this path to whatever suits you
mkdir cd ~/programs/
sleep 1
cd ~/programs/
rm -R ~/programs/teamviewer
## this will delete  ~/programs/teamviewer
## so make sure you do not have by chance a directory ~/programs/teamviewer
## that contains important data
archiv=https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer_amd64.tar.xz
wget $archiv
tar -xf teamviewer*.tar.xz
rm teamviewer*.tar.xz
notify-send 'TeamViewer Update complete'
exit

This script makes ~/programs/ directory if non-existant, enters directory, deletes current teamviewer directory, downlaods up-to-date teamviever and unpacks it.

You can run teamviewer by clicking on teamviewer in ~/programs/teamviewer
or by running ~/programs/teamviewer/teamviewer

In ~/programs/teamviewer you find a desktop file. You can copy it to ~/.local/share/applications to run teamviewer via start menu.
You can also make a desktop file for the script to run the update via start menu or make a script that updates every time when you run teamviewer or after login.

You need wget installed for the script to work. Can't remember if Solus uses wget or wget 2 currently.

Sebastian

penny-farthing Is this still working for you? When trying to launch teamviewer I get:

sebi@solus ~/Programme/teamviewer $ ./teamviewer

Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Starting network process (no daemon)
Network process started (110613)
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...

without the GUI actually starting.

Harvey

It is common place to use #!/usr/bin/env bash these days, this way it checks PATH for the first instance of bash and uses it.

/bin/bash is not the location of bash on Solus or most distributions any more it is /usr/bin/bash Solus however currently has a compatibility symlink for /bin -> /usr/bin one should not assume this will always exist and certainly will not across distributions.

ace66130

Personally, I use rusdesk

penny-farthing

Sebastian

As announced by @alfisya , Teamviewer will be soon given up, so I uninstalled it and replaced it by AnyDesk.

However, as I was the original author of this post, and so as not to leave you alone with your question, I installed TeamViewer in a Solus virtual machine.

1/ First, using your script, I launched a terminal session to activate the daemon:

admin@admin-solus ~ $ teamviewer --daemon start
systemctl start teamviewerd.service

admin@admin-solus ~ $

Then, I ran the script, which gave me the following result, without displaying the application window, as it did for you:

admin@admin-solus ~ $ ~/programs/teamviewer/teamviewer

Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Starting network process (no daemon)
Network process started (9163)
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...
admin@admin-solus ~ $

2/ However, when installing the application via Third-Party Software, it does indeed launch the expected window.

This is what I can tell you about it, but I can't explain why these differences in behavior between your script and Third-Party Software.

Staudey

penny-farthing This is what I can tell you about it, but I can't explain why these differences in behavior between your script and Third-Party Software.

The third party script removes some Qt libraries from the TeamViewer tarball that led to it not launching on systems that had conflicting native versions of these libraries installed.