Rustdesk is one of the best softwares when it comes to troubleshooting computers that you can't physically access.
Rustdesk is free and open source, and most importantly it is a cross platform app, which means you can run rustdesk on many operating systems.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Rustdesk on Arch Linux.
Install Rustdesk on Arch Linux
Like we mentioned above, rustdesk can be found on Aur repository of Arch Linux, and you can install rustdesk easily by following the steps in this tutorial.
Step 1 - Update Arch Linux
To ensure that you can download and install Rustdesk on Arch Linux, first you must update your system.
Updating Arch Linux, is quite simple, all you have to do is run the command below.
sudo pacman -SyuStep 2 - Install Rustdesk
Rustdesk can be installed on Arch Linux, very easily, as rustdesk package is available in the Aur repository in Arch Linux, which means you can install Rustdesk directly from terminal via an AUR helper.
In this tutorial, we are using Paru.
To install Rustdesk via paru, simply run the command below.
paru -S rustdeskStep 3 - Launch Rustdesk
Rustdesk is now installed in your system.
To launch Rustdesk, you can do so by clicking Activities> Rustdesk
If you are a terminal user, and want to use terminal to launch Rustdesk, you can do so by issuing the following command.
rustdesk
Uninstall Rustdesk
If you no longer need Rustdesk on your system, you can uninstall it from your system easily.
To do so, simply execute the command below.
paru -Rsc rustdesk
Conclusion
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and uninstall Rustdesk on Arch Linux via terminal.
By now you should be able to use Rustdesk and remote control any device via your Arch Linux machine.
