Installing teamviewer 9 on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10

While trying to install Teamviewer 9 on 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10, you’ll get a dependencies error such as this:

Unpacking teamviewer (from teamviewer_linux_x64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of teamviewer:
 teamviewer depends on lib32asound2; however:
  Package lib32asound2 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on lib32z1; however:
  Package lib32z1 is not installed.
 teamviewer depends on ia32-libs; however:
  Package ia32-libs is not installed.

dpkg: error processing teamviewer (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 teamviewer

The problem is that the teamviewer_linux_x64.deb has dependencies problems. It isn’t recommended for distributions using multiarch (Ubuntu 12.04 and later). For said distributions the teamviewer_linux.deb package should be used.

This is noted in the help page of Teamviewer:

Notes to Multiarch:

On newer 64-bit DEB-systems with Multiarch-support (Debian 7)
teamviewer_linux_x64.deb cannot be installed because the package
ia32-libs is not available anymore on these systems.
In this case you can use teamviewer_linux.deb instead.

So, here’s how to install it:

1. Download it

wget http: //www .teamviewer.com /download/teamviewer_linux .deb

2. Install gdebi (GDebi can install local .deb packages with automatic dependency resolution (it automatically downloads and installs the required packages).):

sudo apt-get install gdebi

3. In the same directory you download the .deb file just run:

sudo gdebi teamviewer_linux.deb