The Easy Way to Install TeamViewer 6 on Fedora 15

Step 1: Download the TeamViewer RPM

This step is straight forward. Point your browser to the TeamViewer website, and click on the Download link. Click on the Linux link and you'll be presented with 4 options. Choose the Download rpm option.

TeamViewer Download - http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/

For this article, I will assume it will be saved in your Downloads folder.

Step 2: Install Wine

TeamViewer is, technically, not a native Linux application. This version is wrapped around a Windows Emulator (wine). At the time of writing this, I had initial trouble installing TeamViewer, however this was fixed by simply installing the Wine from the Fedora repository.

To do this, open a new Terminal and type:

su -c "yum -y install wine"

Sit back, wait, and wait a little bit more for all the libraries to install.

Step 3: Install TeamViewer

Now for the final part, install TeamViewer. This is just as simple, do the following in your terminal:

su -c "yum localinstall /full/path/to/downloaded/teamviewer_linux.rpm"

Again, sit back while the package manager resolves all the dependencies and fetch additional libraries.

Step 4: Use it!

Type in "teamviewer" into your Gnome 3 shell, and viola!