Ubuntu – TeamViewer 11 won’t run on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit

16.0464-bitteamviewer

After installing TeamViewer 11 on Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit 16.04, I get the error:

Verification of your teamviewer version failed, Teamviewer will quit for security reason. Please reinstall teamviewer

I have uninstalled and purged several times, and I always get the same error on install.
TeamViewer 10 works 100% fine. I need version 11 as clients have upgraded.

Best Answer

As first, remove the actually broken Teamviewer installation in a terminal () by:

apt-get purge teamviewer

If this does not want to work you can as well do this with dpkg:

dpkg -r --force teamviewer

After that make sure you delete any leftovers from your user directory, i.e. ~/.local/share/teamviewer11, ~/.config/temaviewer and /etc/teamviewer:

rm -r ~/.local/share/teamviewer11
rm -r ~/.config/teamviewer
sudo rm -r /etc/teamviewer

Now that this is out of the way, you do an update and an upgrade:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Then install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxtst6:i386 ca-certificates

Now download the Teamviewer package from their website (download-link) and install it:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_11.0.57095_i386.deb

After that it should run start normaly. If you not see teamviewer yet in the dash search check /usr/share/applications directory if the shortcut teamviewer-teamviewer11.desktop exists. If not create one by

sudoedit teamviewer-teamviewer11.desktop

And pasting (ctrl+shift+v) the following in:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=TeamViewer 11
Comment=TeamViewer Remote Control Application
Exec=/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer
Icon=/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/desktop/teamviewer.png
Type=Application
Categories=Network;
#Categories=Network;RemoteAccess;

It should show up in dash at least after a reboot. Meanwhile you can firstly start your new installed Teamviewer vie the terminal by:

teamviewer &
disown

Now you can lock it at least already onto your launcher if you wish to do so.

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