Teamviewer not starting on Raspberry Pi

ABQ_RPi

I am at a complete standstill on this set of errors. The startup script is failing:

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.9.20+ #985 Mon Apr 3 10:19:25 BST 2017 armv6l GNU/Linux

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script $ cat /etc/debian_version
8.0

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script $ teamviewer

Init...
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Starting network process (no daemon)
/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/tvw_exec: line 40:  1046 Illegal instruction     "$TV_BIN_DIR/teamviewerd" -n -f
Network process already started (or error)
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...
Illegal instruction
pi@raspberrypi:/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script $

DanielStm

Hi QBQ_RPi,

the illegal instruction thing makes me wonder if you managed to install the normal TeamViewer package, which is Wine-based and of course only meant to be installed on Intel machines.

So, using the host package is the right way to go! Make sure to pick the arm download (although the installer should make it hard for you to install the wrong package). Have a look here: Linux Host downloads

EDIT: Actually, now I spotted it: You tried to install on a first-gen Raspberry Pi, but you need a Pi 2 or Pi 3. The TeamViewer package required the armv7 instruction set. Also, the performance on a first-gen Pi would be pretty bad...

P.S.: You don't need to go to a certain directory to run the teamviewer command!