Anydesk Download Ubuntu 22.04 Command Line
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Follow the steps as root user to install Anydesk from the repository.
Step 1. Add Anydesk repository key to the Trusted software providers list.
wget -qO - -GPG-KEY apt-key add -
Step 2. Now add the repository to the sources list.
Below command will put the repository entry in a new file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.
* Execute as single command
echo "deb all main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anydesk-stable.list
Step 3. Update the apt cache by running below command.
apt update
Step 4. Now install the software. This command will download and install Anydesk from repository along with dependencies.
apt install anydesk
Step 5. Finally, You can launch by typing Anydesk in the application launcher.
This method same is similar to previous method. However, we can download the latest software from Anydesk site and install locally.
Step 1. Download the latest Anydesk software from the following link using web browser.
[OR]
Use the following command to download latest software.
* Execute as single command
wget $(wget -q -O anydesk && grep -Eo "(httphttps)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*amd64.deb" anydesk head -1 ) && rm anydesk
Step 2. After that go to the downloaded directory and check the file.
user@krizna:/Downloads$ ls -l
anydesk_5.5.5-1_amd64.debGive execute permission so that we can install the software.
chmod +x anydesk_5.5.5-1_amd64.deb
Step 3. Now install the downloaded software.
This command will install the downloaded package. In addition, It will install the dependencies needed for the software.
sudo apt install ./anydesk_5.5.5-1_amd64.deb
Step 4. Finally, You can launch the application by typing Anydesk in the application launcher.
See also
How to setup VNC server on centos 8 / RHEL 8
How to install TeamViewer on ubuntu 20.04
Yes you are not supposed to be able to use these commands with sudo plainly like that, they will not have the dbus session of your user available, nor the X environment of your users xorg server. In case this is actually relevant, you should not try to sledgehammer problems by prepending sudo to commands willy nilly, that will often not lead to success. Are you trying to run the standard anydesk client as root despite not needing to? Then just don't and this also would explain your issues.
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