With TeamViewer, you can access your Raspberry Pi even if you are running a lite version of Raspbian that only has the command line. In the next two sections, we will explore utilizing TeamViewer on both a GUI setup and a headless setup. The software is automatically set up so that it will start up on boot, so you do not have to worry about that. TeamViewer should now be up and running on your Raspberry Pi. Now let’s utilize the apt tool by running the command below. The apt package manager will automatically detect the missing packages and attempt to download the best versions available for the software. To fix this, we will have to make use of our package manager to repair the “broken install”.
Upon running the above command, you will notice a bunch of errors about specific packages not being installed. To install the TeamViewer deb package, we will be making use of the dpkg utility which is the base of the Debian package management software. Now that we have the TeamViewer deb file available on our Raspberry Pi lets go ahead and install it by running the following command. deb file is an archive containing all the files that we need for TeamViewer. deb file is a package file designed for the Debian systems package management system. This command will use wget to download the. Let’s go ahead and download the software package from Teamviewer’s servers.Īs we are already using the command line, we can do that by running the following command. With the Raspberry Pi now entirely up to date. You can achieve this by running the following command. To install TeamViewer to your Raspberry Pi, we will have first to ensure that our package list and all installed packages are up to date.
Installing TeamViewer to the Raspberry Piġ. Equipmentīelow is all the equipment that you will need for setting up TeamViewer on your Raspberry Pi. For pure terminal sharing you can use something like tmate. There are other methods of connecting to your Raspberry Pi remotely such as using VNC server. This means that the TeamViewer software should work for the vast majority of people unless you are running a now somewhat outdated version of the Raspberry Pi.
To install TeamViewer on the Raspberry Pi, you will have to be utilizing a Raspberry Pi 2 or newer running Raspbian Jessie or newer. You can not use TeamViewer on your Raspberry Pi to connect to other TeamViewer clients, but others can connect to it. Unlike standard versions of TeamViewer, it is purely designed to receive connections and act as a server. The version of TeamViewer that we will be installing to the Raspberry Pi is called TeamViewer Host. It is heavily used by support teams as it can make diagnosing and fixing problems a lot easier. For those who do not know what TeamViewer is, it is proprietary software that is hugely popular for sharing desktops as well as giving others remote access to the device.