Anydesk installation witout flatpack

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Anydesk is one candidate for remote support. Although there are alternative open source programs like RustDesk you may be forced to utilize AnyDesk for external constraints.

AnyDesk is a proprietary software, and the manufacturer does not provide Arch packages. One suggested solution is to utilize flatpack, but i personally think that all these “innovative” container formats are total crap.

The manufacturer does provide a generic tar, which can be used for installation. If you just install that, it won’t run on plain EndeavourOS. A library is missing, unfortunately one that is legacy, and no more supported, and only available via yay.

I made up a script that does all necessary installation steps. Just run it and Anydesk will be installed.

https://gitlab.com/Jschwender/AnyDesk

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But there is a PKGBUILD for it in the AUR.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/anydesk-bin

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I typically install Anydesk from AUR. Never had issues with it.

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Uhhh!?

:thought_balloon:

:crab:

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For me, Anydesk installed fine from AUR, it started also but failed to show it’s application window on GUI. This is one of the issues that i often have with Flatpack or snap and even AppImage. They always have performance issues, they often have trouble with hardware access (NVIDIA) and are an additional security risk which i preferably try to limit in number.

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Thanks for the hint :smile:

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