Install AnyDesk in Ubuntu Server Raspberry PI 4 image via Terminal

I've been struggling to install AnyDesk in a flashed Ubuntu Server 20.04 image for Raspberry PI 4.

What I've done is the following:

1. delete and clear all other previous installations:

   sudo apt-get purge anydesk

   sudo apt-get autoclean

   sudo apt-get autoremove

2. Adding armhf arquitechture (after step 1 some things must be reinstalled again):

   sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get install crossbuild-essential-armhf

3. Install AnyDesk from .deb file:

   wget

   sudo dpkg -i anydesk_6.0.1_armhf.deb

   sudo apt install ./anydesk_6.0.1_armhf.deb

When I run the last command line of step 3, I get a message saying that anydesk:armhf will be installed instead of anydesk_6.0.1_armhf.deb, afterwards, a report with metrics for installed, updated, and uninstalled packages appears saying 0 for all of them, saying anydesk is already installed to its last version.

So I try to run "anydesk" from the Terminal and nothing else comes up. I would try to do so directly within the PI's desktop, and not through terminal, but I'm working remotely and that's not a possibility at the moment.

How could I solve this?

Thanks in advance for any valuable input.

3 Answers

You are missing

sudo apt-get --fix-broken install

after

sudo dpkg -i anydesk_6.0.1_armhf.deb

I just tried your ways and it worked like a charm.

I am using anydesk_6.1.1_armhf.deb.

at step 3, cd into where you downloaded anydesk deb file, and use:sudo gdebi anydesk_6.0.1-1_armhf.deb (6.0.1-1 is the actual last version available)

gdebi will solve all the dependencies missing for you. if you don't have it, just run: sudo apt install gdebi

Just a small update - crucial fact - for everyone like me trying to install AnyDesk on RPi 4 with x64 OS (Ubuntu, Raspbian, doesn't matter) it won't work as AnyDesk only supports x32 OS.

More details/discussion can be found here.