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tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1049 Location: Vienna Austria

Here is an update pet for the latest Teamviewer 6.
I've been told that a previous version 5 no longer works for some reason.

Tested in Racy 5.2Beta. should be OK in other recent Puppy versions as well.

19MB Download version that only runs as non-root here :
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-cf6f47c7.html

Patched version that can run as root:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-c4b3dfad.html

This later version can start normally from the JWM menu.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

running Teamviewer as root is possible, the script used to run it just has to be modified as it does a check to see if you are running as root or not, the program itself does not prevent you from running as root.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1049 Location: Vienna Austria

@DPUP5520

OK thanks for that. I didn't think of checking that. I'll modify the script and upload a new version of Teamviewer with that amended script.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

The way they set up the scripts on the new 6.0.9258 version is a bit complicated, the old version 9224 was very easy to fix to run as root and I think they realized that, I've been trying for the last hour to get it running as root but every time I succeed and then package it into a pet it dies on me for some reason, once you change one part of the script you have to keep on changing other parts until it all works together so it's a little complicated and Im just too lazy to do it right now but if you get it working let me know as I'd like to upgrade from 9224 to 9258.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1225 Location: wales

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

patched isn't working for me, giving me same issues I had after doing manual modifications to the script.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1225 Location: wales

teamviewerantiroot is the script in /usr/bin/ so run that in a terminal. the desktop file should be replaced with one that points to that. so it should work from the menu. works for me.

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

Thanks 666philb but no need for the antiroot script, apparently when I was playing around yesterday I had screwed something up that kept wine from running when trying to start teamviewer, booted up a fresh install and the pet I made which just took out the validate user out of the wrapper script and changing root to any other name in the killteamviewer script worked fine which I suspect is the same thing that tronkel did for his pet.

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1049 Location: Vienna Austria

Interesting that 66philb found that Iguleder's script also worked for Teamviewer. Actually, now that I think about it, It probably would do.

Iguleder checked the Google Chrome code and found a C library function that does the user validate check. He then compiled a shared library that wraps this hacked function and is subsequently used to overwrite the original user validator function. It's very likely that the Teamviewer wrapper script calls the same built-in user validator function. Hence it works.

Yes, all my patch does is to comment out the validate_user function used in the script.

Anyway whatever, it seems to work for you and that's the main thing. Happy Teamviewering! ( Laughing

control freaks LOL!)

JackWagon · Joined: 17 Aug 2010 Posts: 37 Location: dead center, USA

Anyone know of a TeamViewer.pet available for version 7? Wink

jw

DPUP5520 · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 758

Teamviewer 7 is not yet available for Linux clients, it will be available by the end of the first quarter of 2012 which if I still have internet I will fix up and upload to my db for download.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1225 Location: wales

teamviewer 7

http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7m4gkse7mb8ee43/teamviewerstart.pet to run it as root

666philb

Pete22 · Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 212 Location: Utah, USA

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1225 Location: wales

hi pete.... you need both of those links.

you also need wine installed ...EDIT: wine not needed as included in the .deb

Pete22 · Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 212 Location: Utah, USA

>you also need wine installed

The teamviewer.deb from the teamviewer site includes wine, but it is hidden.

Are you saying I need to download a separate wine pet and install it too?

Would it not be better to get teamviewerstart.pet to use the secret version of wine from the teamviwer.deb file?

Thank you for working on this pet. Since I am often homebound, I use Teamviewer to help people remotely.

Pete