AnyDesk is a remote server management tool which allows you to connect to a remote system and control it smoothly and seamlessly as if you were directly logged into that system. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. This tutorial will show you how you can install AnyDesk on Kali Linux Desktop system.
AnyDesk is available as free offering for personal use and as paid software for any commercial use – small teams and large organizations doing remote support business. Check AnyDesk pricing page for more insight.
Install AnyDesk on Kali Linux
AnyDesk packages for Kali Linux are available on an APT repository. Add AnyDesk upstream APT repository to Kali Linux and then install AnyDesk from the repository.
1. Update Debian system
Update APT packages installed on your Kali Linux:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gnupg2 curl2. Add AnyDesk repository Kali Linux
Add AnyDesk repository to Kali Linux:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.anydesk.com/ all main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anydesk.list'Import AnyDesk GPG key for signing APT packages.
curl -fsSL https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/DEB-GPG-KEY|sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/anydesk.gpg3. Install AnyDesk on Kali Linux
Install AnyDesk on Kali Linux using the apt package manager.
sudo apt -y update && sudo apt -y install anydeskConfirm package installation.
$ apt policy anydesk
anydesk:
Installed: 6.2.0
Candidate: 6.2.0
Version table:
*** 6.1.1 500
500 http://deb.anydesk.com all/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/statusFrom the output, we can get the version of AnyDesk installed on Kali Linux.
4. Using AnyDesk on Kali Linux
You can now launch AnyDesk on Kali Linux and start managing your home devices from the Office or vice versa.
From Desktop Environment:
From CLI:
anydeskAnyDesk address for a remote machine is required when connecting from your local AnyDesk application.
This ID is uniquely generated each time you launch the application.
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Check other installations of AnyDesk.
Hello, everything went well, but when opening Anydesk I have this message “anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
It works fine on my test.
Hello. Thank you for the tuto, everything went well, but when opening AnyDesk, I have this error message “anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
use binary version
https://download.anydesk.com/linux/anydesk-6.1.1-amd64.tar.gz
Yes that also works. Only that update can’t be done through apt package manager.
Opening anydesk says:
zsh: IOT instruction anydesk
Could not find solution anywhere.
OS: Kali
Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-kali7-amd64
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Model: Latitude E5440
Worked perfectly! Thank you guys!!!
Couple of months ago it did work fine. It doesn’t anymore.
This one shows up
error while loading shared libraries: libpangox-1.0.so.0