Press Close to go back to the main screen.ĪnyDesk is a great alternative to TeamVIewer. Press on “ Unlock Security Settings”, it may request your root password, fill it if requested.ĭefine if you want allow access always or only when the AnyDesk window is open, then click on “Enable unattended access”
To set a password on the main screen click on “Set password for unattended access” below your number address. You can also send a mail invitation by clicking on “Send invitation…” below “Set password for unattended access”.Īs explained before each time a user requests a connection by default there is not password access but the host user must accept the incoming connection, this can be achieved by setting up a password. Similarly to TeamViewer it will show a numerical address to share with your partner you want to connect to your device, in contrast to Teamviewer by default it lacks of password and instead requires the host to allow the connection, in the next step i’ll add a permanent password to allow connecting when the human host isn’t available to accept the incoming connection.īelow there is a box to fill with a destination address if you want to connect to a remote host and at the bottom the recorded sessions are shown. Once installed you’ll find it on your graphical environment apps menu as the image below: Note: if you weren’t used with the command dpkg you can learn about it at All about the debian package managers: dpkg, apt and aptitude explained. Go to Activities and click on the AnyDesk icon, and soon it will start for you to get remote access to other computers using the same application.# dpkg -i /home /shared /anydesk_5.5.1- 1_b The following NEW packages will be installed:Ġ upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 13.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.ĭo you want to continue? Y 6. The following additional packages will be installed: Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. Libkf5threadweaver5 libvoikko1 linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-21-generic linux-tools-common media-player-info Libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5 Libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5solid5 Libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5itemmodels5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 Kio libhfstospell10 libkf5archive5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5iconthemes-bin The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
The output for the above command: :~$ sudo apt install anydesk
Install AnyDesk via commandįinally, everything is ready, just issue the below single command in your Ubuntu 20.04 Terminal to download and install AnyDesk.
Now, to let the system know that we have added some new repository, run the system update command which will flush and recognize the AnyDesk repo to download its packages. echo deb all main | sudo tee /etc/apt//anydesk-stable.list 4.
Add AnyDesk Repository in Ubuntu 20.04Īlthough, we can download AnyDesk Debian packages directly from its official website, however, to make the article purely command-line based, we are using its official repository. To ensure that the AnyDesk packages we will receive are from the original sources add the following key on your Ubuntu system.
Go to Activities and search for Terminal or simply use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+T. The commands are given here to download and set up AnyDesk were executed on Ubuntu 20.04, however, they can be used for Ubuntu 19.04/18.04/16.04 as well. Uninstall AnyDesk from Ubuntu Steps to install Anydesk in ubuntu 20.04 via terminal