Rustdesk is a free and open source remote control app that you can use on Linux to remote control any computer.
Rustdesk supports Linux, and you can install Rustdesk on any linux distro you want. A great feature that Rustdesk offers is that it supports also self hosting, which means you can self host Rustdesk on your server, and use it to control any device from your browser without having to download Rustdesk on your machine.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Rustdesk on Ubuntu.
Install Rustdesk on Ubuntu
In this tutorial, we'll be installing Rustdesk on Ubuntu via apt, by downloading the Rustdesk binary file from the official Rustdesk repository on Github.
Step 1 - Update your system
Before you download Rustdesk, you need to make sure that your system is up to date.
Ubuntu can be easily updated from the terminal, by using apt package manager.
To do so, simply run the command below.
sudo apt update && apt upgrade -y
Step 2 - Install wget
We'll be using wget to download Rustdesk binary from the Github repository, so in order to be able to download Rustdesk you must have wget installed on your system.
If your system doesn't have wget installed, you can easily install it by executing the command below.
sudo apt install wget
Step 3 - Install Rustdesk
Now that your system is up to date, and wget installed, you can proceed to download Rustdesk binary from its Github repository.
To do so, simply run the command below.
wget https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/download/1.2.3/rustdesk-1.2.3-x86_64.deb
Rustdesk binary is now downloaded on your system, which means all you have to do now is install Rustdesk.
To install Rustdesk is quite easy, and you can do so by using apt package manager.
To do so, simply run the command below.
sudo apt install ./rustdesk-1.2.3-x86_64.debNext, you will be prompted to authenticate, enter your password and press enter in order to proceed installing Rustdesk.
Step 4 - Launch Rustdesk
Rustdesk should be now installed in your Ubuntu machine, and you should be able to use it.
First, launch Rustdesk, by executing the command below.
rustdesk
If you want to launch Rustdesk via GUI, simply search for "Rustdesk" in the search box of the applications Menu.
Uninstall Rustdesk on Ubuntu
We installed Rustdesk on this tutorial manually via the deb file, which means in order to remove Rustdesk from your Ubuntu machine, you need to remove Rustdesk binary which can be found on /usr/bin/ directory.
sudo apt remove rustdesk
Conclusion
In this tutorial you learned how to install Rustdesk on Ubuntu, by downloading and installing Rustdesk binary via apt in the terminal.
