Question: How can one install TeamViewer on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Desktop operating system?. TeamViewer is a proprietary software used for internet-based remote support. It enables you to access a remote system in an easy, fast and secure way tp perform various operations such as Remote server/desktop control, Desktop sharing, Web conferencing, holding Online meetings and File transfer between computers.

TeamViewer is only free for personal use. If you’ve plans of rolling out in your company, a license will be required before it is used. TeamViewer Desktop application is a multi-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. This guide has been written to help Desktop users to install TeamViewer on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Desktop. So let’s get started.

Install TeamViewer on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Desktop

You can grab the latest release of TeamViewer on the Website downloads page. We’ll first install wget then download TeamViewer on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 with it.

sudo dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install wget
wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer.x86_64.rpm

Once the RPM package is downloaded, install it with rpm of yum package management tools available in your system.

sudo dnf install ./teamviewer*.rpm

Press y key when asked to finish installation of TeamViewer client on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 Desktop.

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Transaction Summary
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Install  48 Packages

Total size: 114 M
Total download size: 101 M
Installed size: 389 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Also accept GPG key importation.

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Total                                                                                                                                                                 3.4 MB/s | 4.4 MB     00:01
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                                                                                                                        1.6 MB/s | 1.6 kB     00:00
Importing GPG key 0x2F86D6A1:
 Userid     : "Fedora EPEL (8) <[email protected]>"
 Fingerprint: 94E2 79EB 8D8F 25B2 1810 ADF1 21EA 45AB 2F86 D6A1
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
Is this ok [y/N]: y

More information on installed package can be queried using the following command.

$ rpm -qi teamviewer
Name        : teamviewer
Version     : 15.47.3
Release     : 0
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Fri 17 Nov 2023 01:30:30 AM UTC
Group       : Applications/Internet
Size        : 317163141
License     : Proprietary; includes Free Software components.
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 18 Oct 2023 05:08:15 PM UTC, Key ID c5e224500c1289c0
Source RPM  : teamviewer-15.47.3-0.src.rpm
Build Date  : Wed 18 Oct 2023 05:04:26 PM UTC
Build Host  : devsrvvie0022
Vendor      : TeamViewer Germany GmbH
URL         : http://www.teamviewer.com
Summary     : Remote control and meeting solution.
...

Launching TeamViewer on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

After installing TeamViewer on RHEL 8 / CentOS Linux, you can launch it from your Desktop Apps menu or from CLI. To Launch TeamViewer on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 from your Desktop Environment Applications Launcher, search for “teamviewer” and then hit <Enter>.

The same can be done from the CLI by executing the command: 

$ teamviewer
Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...

You’re first asked to accept License Agreement and enter remote computer details to gain access (ID & Password).

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A working TeamViewer application will show a window similar to one shared below.

That’s all on how to install TeamViewer on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 Desktop Linux system. You can check other Desktop Applications guides for CentOS/RHEL 8 available in our website.

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