Ubuntu – Unable to install Anydesk 5.5.1 in Ubuntu 18.04

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I am trying to break free from the shackles of Windows and am using Ubuntu for the first time. I am having a tough time installing Anydesk 5.5.1 in Ubuntu 18.04. I have read some of the posts which other users have posted. I have tried the following suggestions, but have not succeeded so far. Being Linux, I know that it can be done. The only thing is that since I am a novice, I am not having the requisite knowledge. I will be grateful to the experts in this community if they can help me install this software.

  1. Anydesk installation Through GUI:
    • Went to https://anydesk.com/platforms
    • Downloaded – anydesk_5.5.1-1_amd64.deb
    • Right click – Clicked on Open with Software
    • Clicked on Install button
    • Authentication Required – Put the password
    • Installing 100% – Green progress bar moves from 0 to 100%
    • When I see in the Ubuntu software centre, this software is not installed.

  2. Installation through terminal

    • Went to the downloads folder
    • sudo apt install ./anydesk_5.5.1-1_amd64.deb

    • Encountered the following error:

      Error -> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 anydesk : Depends: libpango1.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

      Adding the output of sudo apt show libpango*

    Package: libpango-1.0-0
    Version: 1.40.14-1ubuntu0.1
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: libs
    Source: pango1.0
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Installed-Size: 414 kB
    Depends: fontconfig (>= 2.1.91), libc6 (>= 2.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libthai0 (>= 0.1.22-3~)
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Download-Size: unknown
    APT-Manual-Installed: no
    APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
    Description: Layout and rendering of internationalised text
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the shared libraries.

    Package: libpango1.0-doc
    Version: 1.40.14-1
    Priority: optional
    Section: doc
    Source: pango1.0
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 2,350 kB
    Recommends: libglib2.0-doc
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Supported: 5y
    Download-Size: 183 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
    Description: Documentation files for the Pango
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
    on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and
    font handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with
    four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the HTML documentation for the Pango in
      /usr/share/doc/libpango1.0-doc/ .

    Package: libpangocairo-1.0-0
    Version: 1.40.14-1ubuntu0.1
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: libs
    Source: pango1.0
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Installed-Size: 92.2 kB
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.12.10), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.5), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.28.1)
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Download-Size: unknown
    APT-Manual-Installed: no
    APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
    Description: Layout and rendering of internationalised text
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the shared libraries.

    Package: libpangoft2-1.0-0
    Version: 1.40.14-1ubuntu0.1
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: libs
    Source: pango1.0
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Installed-Size: 131 kB
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libharfbuzz0b (>= 1.2.6), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.2)
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Download-Size: unknown
    APT-Manual-Installed: no
    APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
    Description: Layout and rendering of internationalised text
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the shared libraries.

    Package: libpangoxft-1.0-0
    Version: 1.40.14-1ubuntu0.1
    Status: install ok installed
    Priority: optional
    Section: libs
    Source: pango1.0
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Installed-Size: 74.8 kB
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxrender1
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Download-Size: unknown
    APT-Manual-Installed: no
    APT-Sources: /var/lib/dpkg/status
    Description: Layout and rendering of internationalised text
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the shared libraries.

    Package: libpangomm-1.4-1v5
    Version: 2.40.1-4
    Priority: optional
    Section: libs
    Source: pangomm
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 207 kB
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairomm-1.0-1v5 (>= 1.12.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.54.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.38.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.38.0), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
    Conflicts: libpangomm-1.4-1
    Replaces: libpangomm-1.4-1
    Homepage: http://gtkmm.org
    Task: ubuntu-live, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-live-share, lubuntu-gtk-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-live, lubuntu-live-qt, lubuntu-live-gtk, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
    Supported: 5y
    Download-Size: 42.5 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
    Description: C++ Wrapper for pango (shared libraries)
    Pangomm is a C++ wrapper for the pango library. Originally part of gtkmm,
    pangomm provides convenient C++ interfaces for handling both the layout
    and internationalization of text in graphical applications.
    .
    This package contains the shared library.

    Package: libpango1.0-dev
    Version: 1.40.14-1
    Priority: optional
    Section: libdevel
    Source: pango1.0
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 1,921 kB
    Depends: gir1.2-pango-1.0 (= 1.40.14-1), libcairo2-dev (>= 1.12.10), libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.10.91), libfreetype6-dev, libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.34.0), libharfbuzz-dev (>= 0.9.9), libpango-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libpangoxft-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libx11-dev, libxft-dev, libxrender-dev, pkg-config, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.12.10), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.34.0), libx11-6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1)
    Recommends: debhelper
    Suggests: imagemagick, libpango1.0-doc
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Supported: 5y
    Download-Size: 288 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
    Description: Development files for the Pango
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
    on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and
    font handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with
    four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the header files and some files needed for development
      with Pango.

    Package: libpangomm-1.4-dev
    Version: 2.40.1-4
    Priority: optional
    Section: libdevel
    Source: pangomm
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 351 kB
    Depends: libpangomm-1.4-1v5 (= 2.40.1-4), libcairomm-1.0-dev (>= 1.12.0), libglibmm-2.4-dev (>= 2.48.0), libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.38.0)
    Homepage: http://gtkmm.org
    Supported: 5y
    Download-Size: 49.1 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
    Description: C++ Wrapper for pango (development files)
    Pangomm is a C++ wrapper for the pango library. Originally part of gtkmm,
    pangomm provides convenient C++ interfaces for handling both the layout
    and internationalization of text in graphical applications.
    .
    This package contains the development files.

    Package: libpangomm-1.4-doc
    Version: 2.40.1-4
    Priority: optional
    Section: doc
    Source: pangomm
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 5,223 kB
    Depends: lynx | www-browser, doc-base
    Suggests: gtkmm-documentation
    Homepage: http://gtkmm.org
    Supported: 5y
    Download-Size: 432 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
    Description: C++ Wrapper for pango (documentation)
    Pangomm is a C++ wrapper for the pango library. Originally part of gtkmm,
    pangomm provides convenient C++ interfaces for handling both the layout
    and internationalization of text in graphical applications.
    .
    This package contains the documentation.

    Package: libpango3.0-cil
    Version: 2.99.3-2
    Priority: optional
    Section: universe/cli-mono
    Source: gtk-sharp3
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian CLI Libraries Team
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 185 kB
    Depends: cli-common (>= 0.5.1), libcairo1.10-cil (>= 2.99.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.1), libglib3.0-cil (>= 2.99.3), libmono-corlib4.5-cil (>= 3.2.8), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.36.8), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.36.8), libc6 (>= 2.2.5)
    Suggests: monodoc-gtk3.0-manual
    Homepage: http://www.mono-project.com/GtkSharp
    Download-Size: 38.9 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    Description: CLI binding for Pango
    This package provides the pango-sharp assembly that allows CLI (.NET)
    programs to use the Pango library.
    .
    GTK# 3.0 is a CLI (.NET) language binding for the GTK+ 3.0 toolkit and
    related libraries.

    Package: libpango1.0-0
    Version: 1.40.14-1
    Priority: optional
    Section: universe/libs
    Source: pango1.0
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 33.8 kB
    Depends: libpango-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1), libpangox-1.0-0 (>= 0.0.2-2~), libpangoxft-1.0-0 (= 1.40.14-1)
    Homepage: http://www.pango.org/
    Download-Size: 3,332 B
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    Description: Layout and rendering of internationalized text (transitional package)
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This is a transitional package.

    Package: libpango-perl
    Version: 1.227-2build1
    Priority: optional
    Section: universe/perl
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 499 kB
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), perl (>= 5.26.0-4), perlapi-5.26.0, libcairo-perl, libglib-perl
    Homepage: http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/
    Task: lubuntu-gtk-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
    Supported: 3y
    Download-Size: 157 kB
    APT-Manual-Installed: no
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    Description: Perl module to layout and render international text
    Pango is a library for laying out and rendering text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed,
    but using Pango in conjunction with Cairo and/or Gtk2 provides a complete
    solution with high quality text handling and graphics rendering.
    .
    This package provides the Perl bindings for the Pango library.

    Package: libpangox-1.0-0
    Version: 0.0.2-5
    Priority: extra
    Section: universe/oldlibs
    Source: pangox-compat
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 169 kB
    Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.34.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.32.5-3~), libx11-6
    Breaks: libpango1.0-0 (<< 1.32.5-2)
    Replaces: libpango1.0-0 (<< 1.32.5-2)
    Task: ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics
    Download-Size: 41.7 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    Description: pango library X backend
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the Core X backend.

    Package: libpangox-1.0-dev
    Version: 0.0.2-5
    Priority: extra
    Section: universe/libdevel
    Source: pangox-compat
    Origin: Ubuntu
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
    Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
    Installed-Size: 209 kB
    Depends: libpangox-1.0-0 (= 0.0.2-5), libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.34.0), libpango1.0-dev, libx11-dev, libxrender-dev, pkg-config
    Breaks: libpango1.0-dev (<< 1.32.5-2)
    Replaces: libpango1.0-dev (<< 1.32.5-2)
    Download-Size: 41.7 kB
    APT-Sources: http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    Description: pango library X backend – development files
    Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on
    internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
    needed. however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the GTK+
    widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font
    handling for GTK+-2.0.
    .
    Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with four different font backends:

    • Core X windowing system fonts
    • Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
    • Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
    • Native fonts on Microsoft backends
      .
      This package contains the development files for the Core X backend.

    Package: libpangomm-1.4-1
    State: not a real package (virtual)
    N: There are 4 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.

Best Answer

if you have downloaded the deb file than go to the directory where it is located and open the terminal and try this :

sudo dpkg -i anydesk_5.5.1-1_amd64.deb

if you still faces issues with dependencies execute the following command to install the required dependencies.

sudo apt-get install -f

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