Linux Mint 13 Teamviewer Not Installing

[Michaelclaw]

Hi,

I download the .deb for ubuntu on the offical teamviewer website and when i try to install it says it needs to install like 271 packages along with teamviewer i press install package and it waits like 10 seconds and then says fail to fetch the package.

[xenopeek]

On the download page you can pick a .deb for 32-bit or a .deb for 64-bit. You picked the 32-bit I think, while you have a 64-bit Linux Mint installation. Pick the 64-bit .deb and that should work.

IIRC if you instead download the .tar.gz, you just extract that and can run TeamViewer from there without needing to install it.

[Michaelclaw]

Hello,

I have actually tried 64-bit and 32-bit both have not worked. Sorry for the late reply. Im trying to install the tar.gz file will report back on here.. also do i drag the file to a certain location?

[Michaelclaw]

Tar.gz didnt work tried too launch the "teamviewer" script and it gave me options (Run in terminal, Display, Cancel, Run) I choose all of them and nothing worked.

[slingshot]

Hi,
I guess you downloaded the tar.gz file from:
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx

I think you need to have wine installed on your computer in order to make this work. Could you install wine and try to start teamviewer again?

Regards,
Kristian

[Michaelclaw]

Hello,

*SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY*

Will try the wine method right now..... thanks for the reply

[Michaelclaw]

Problem.

I have tried to install wine and i get a error code while installing on terminal, and when i install through source manager it goes to 55% and just completely stops.

I dont know why? do you want to me to reinstall linux mint? i really dont want too though :/

[axel668]

maybe you should ask this to Teamviewer forum / support Mint 13 is very close to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS after all, it's very likely someone else has had the same issue before

[goetzkluge]

Hi,
I guess you downloaded the tar.gz file from:
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx

I think you need to have wine installed on your computer in order to make this work. Could you install wine and try to start teamviewer again?

Regards,
Kristian

Teamvier (I used the ...tar.gz) comes with its own wine. That is why there are so many files. I just unpacked it in a subdirectory (below my home directory) and start it from there.

[Michaelclaw]

Hey,

I tried numerous ways of trying to install wine.... i dont know. maybe i will switch back too ubuntu i could install wine on there or go to a new distro.

[wlsnoops]

Hey,

I tried numerous ways of trying to install wine.... i dont know. maybe i will switch back too ubuntu i could install wine on there or go to a new distro.

Have you tried to install it through the Software Manager? I use Linux Mint Maya and had no issues at all installing it. Hope this helps.

[ljonesj]

well i i just reinstalled my linux mint 13 system and the first program i tired install is teamviewer 7 it stops and tells me it can't get all depencies and gives me a 127 errror and install-info or info-install which makes it were i cant install anything else can anyone help me

[mtbsoft]

If you are trying to install the 64 bit version of TV I may have a solution for you - it worked for me and I was having the same issues as others in this thread.

The 32 bit packages are a waste of time on maya 64 bit, they leave it in a broken state. The 64 bit packages would go part way through then complain about broken dependencies and error out.

After some research I concluded that the ubuntu repo's are "broken" with regard to this package. Referring to the WineHQ website (http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu) I decide to add the official wine ppa and use that.

So, try the following...

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Now install wine from either synaptic or with the relevant apt-get command (you can choose wine 1.4 (stable) or 1.5 (beta) ) - I chose 1.4 for stability.

At this point you should have had a valid wine install and should be able to run the teamviewer_linux.tar.gz (v7) version if you wish.

Now install the TV V8 64 bit package (or V7, I used the 8, the dependencies appear to be the same) - note that the number of dependencies should have gone down from over 200 to 172 (on a clean install, YMMV).

That should do it. For me, it worked and TV8 fired up - all connectivity was fine and I could control other machines and log into my account.

Hope this helps get someone else going with TV on 64 bit Mint.

[fozziebox]

Thank you very much, this sorted out the TV 8 install on mint 14 64bit for me.