can't get daemon running!

I’m trying to install the latest Teamviewer host X86 64bit .deb package on a VPS with 2 X86 cores running a fresh install of Ubuntu Xenial. I managed to do this on other devices but this time I’m failing and I don’t see what I’m doing wrong. The steps I use are:

adduser USER
sudo adduser USER sudo
su user
cd
sudo apt-get update
wget https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer-host_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./teamviewer-host_amd64.deb
sudo teamviewer setup 

but then I get the following output:

TeamViewer daemon is not running, setup cannot continue.Please activate the TeamViewer daemon before invoking setup.

When I use netstat -tulpn the daemon appears to be running:

 Active Internet connections (only servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      547/sshd        
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5939          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     2661/teamviewerd

I also tried sudo teamviewer --daemon restart and sudo teamviewer --daemon enable but it makes no difference. Any suggestions?