Installing teamviewer 9 on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10

While trying to install Teamviewer 9 on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10, you’ll get a dependencies error such as this:

Unpacking teamviewer (from teamviewer_linux_x64.deb) ...

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of teamviewer:

 teamviewer depends on lib32asound2; however:

  Package lib32asound2 is not installed.

 teamviewer depends on lib32z1; however:

  Package lib32z1 is not installed.

 teamviewer depends on ia32-libs; however:

  Package ia32-libs is not installed.

 

dpkg: error processing teamviewer (--install):

 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing:

 teamviewer

The problem is that the teamviewer_linux_x64.deb has dependencies problems. It isn’t recommended for distributions using multiarch (Ubuntu 12.04 and later). For said distributions the teamviewer_linux.deb package should be used.

This is noted in the help page of Teamviewer:

Notes to Multiarch:

 

On newer 64-bit DEB-systems with Multiarch-support (Debian 7)

teamviewer_linux_x64.deb cannot be installed because the package

ia32-libs is not available anymore on these systems.

In this case you can use teamviewer_linux.deb instead.

So, here’s how to install it:

1. Download it

wget http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb

2. Install gdebi (GDebi can install local .deb packages with automatic dependency resolution (it automatically downloads and installs the required packages).):

sudo apt-get install gdebi

3. In the same directory you download the .deb file just run:

sudo gdebi teamviewer_linux.deb