TeamViewer is a free (for home use only) remote support application that lets you remotely access and troubleshoot PCs over the Internet / LAN. You can use it to help friends / family fix computer issues, share your desktop session all for free from a remote location anywhere in the world where there’s Internet access.

To install TeamViewer in Ubuntu

open Terminal (press Ctrl – Alt – T)

And run the following command to download TeamViewer deb package.

wget http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb

After downloading, install it by running

sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb

If you have 64-bit version of Ubuntu, run the commands below to download the 64 bit version of TeamViwer

wget http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux_x64.deb

Then run the commands below to install:

sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.deb