Anydesk install in 20.04 64bit on a Pi 4

[netwarrior2]

I am a new user of Ubuntu (less than 24hrs in) and failed to install my first app on this OS. After some effort i have managed to install a 64bit OS on my Raspberry Pi 4 4GB using a Ubuntu Server 20.04 for Raspberry Pi image and installed lubuntu (sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop).
In the OS, Settings -> About

Processor: blank
Graphics: llvmpipe (LLVM 9.0.1, 128 bits)
Disk Capacity: Unknown
OS Name: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
OS Type: 64-bit

Which i find confusing because i think it is an ARM processor but requires DEB install files right? So i head over to Anydesk but the Debian/Ubuntu/Mint (64bit)* file gives the error:
Error: Wrong architecture 'amd64'

So i head to the Anydesk for Raspberry Pi download** this time but get the error:
Error: Wrong architecture 'armhf'

I feel silly since there is something obvious i am missing. I just don't know what. I will need to install many apps and I'm stuck at my first hurdle. Any help would be appreciated.

* https://anydesk.com/en/downloads/linux
(https://anydesk.com/en/downloads/linux)** https://anydesk.com/en/downloads/raspberry-pi

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[bijayalaxmi1808]

armhf arm hard-float is the name given to the Debian port for ARM 32-bit versions (someone please correct me if I am wrong).
At least this link (https://www.debian.org/ports/arm/) clearly mentions the same:

The newer ARM hard-float (https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort) (armhf) port supports newer, more powerful 32-bit devices using version 7 of the ARM architecture specification.

If this is true, you can try a 32-bit deb file and see if it installs.

I am not sure, but, should there be an ARM variant of the binary file?

[CelticWarrior]

I am not sure, but, should there be an ARM variant of the binary file?

Yes, it should and that's the problem. 'i384' or 'amd64' packages cannot be installed in ARM devices.

[netwarrior2]

Thanks bijayalaxmi1808 and CelticWarrior.


Yes, it should and that's the problem. 'i384' or 'amd64' packages cannot be installed in ARM devices.

Yep, i found the i384 package for 32bit deb but that failed too. So if I'm reading this right, i need an arm64 package (64-bit ARM) for my 64bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor.
I can only find amd64, armhf, and i386.

Hmm....anyone know how to get the arm64 file?

[deadflowr]

Have you tried adding the armhf architecture to dpkg?

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf

[netwarrior2]

Have you tried adding the armhf architecture to dpkg?

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf

Thanks deadflowr. So this is what i did:


wget -qO - https://keys.anydesk.com/repos/DEB-GPG-KEY | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://deb.anydesk.com/ all main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anydesk-stable.list
apt update
sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
apt install anydesk

Which seemed to go ok. Now it appears in my Show Applications (see pic) but nothing happens when i click on it. Did i break it? I am a Windows user after all :(
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[netwarrior2]

Ok, I'm still looking into this issue and I'll reach out to Anydesk and others to solve it. But in the mean time, is there a workaround that can remote access my lubuntu system remotely using my android tablet and occasionally my Win10 PC? I need to be able to see the screen while the lubuntu system is headless.

[grahammechanical]

Are you trying to install Anydesk on the raspberry PI 4? I am guessing that if you want the Raspberry Pi version of Anydesk on the Raspberry Pi then you would need to be running Raspbian OS on the Raspberry PI.

The Debian version of Anydesk might be meant for Debian and Debian based OS running on an AMD64 compatible CPU. Which excludes the Raspberry PI with its ARM CPU. The Ubuntu server for the Raspberry PI is modified to run on the ARM cortex CPU. That is why deb files such as Lubuntu desktop can be installed. I cannot say for sure but Ubuntu server for Raspberry PI may have its own set of Ubuntu repositories with deb files modified not to reject being installed on an ARM cortex CPU.

This might help to over come the problem. It is a PPA and it is uptodate for 20.04

https://launchpad.net/~rpi-distro/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Regards..

[netwarrior2]

Ok grahammechanical. Not sure what that means but i gave it a go:



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rpi-distro/ppa
sudo apt-get update

It gave an error. Something about not having a Release file so its not safe and therefore disabled by default (see pic). I'm guessing that's not good.

It feels like I'm forcing a red square block though a yellow circular hole while thinking: why doesn't this work!


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[deadflowr]

The ppa has no packages.
Probably best to disable it.

You can try running the application's command to launch from a terminal
that should tell something about what's happening.
For anydesk that is the command

anydesk
or if needed you can run the full file path name

/usr/bin/anydesk

[netwarrior2]

Ok. I removed the ppa


sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:rpi-distro/ppa

then launched anydesk via terminal.


anydesk


/usr/bin/anydesk

In both cases it said:
error while loading shared libraries: libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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[deadflowr]

Try installing the libpolkit-gobject package

sudo apt-get install libpolkit-gobject-1-0

[netwarrior2]

I did a search and found this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59585500/ubuntu-on-raspberry-pi-4-anydesk-error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libpolk

So i did this:

apt-get install libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0

but got this for my trouble:

E: Unable to locate package libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0'

I thought i was onto something there for a moment :(

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[netwarrior2]

Try installing the libpolkit-gobject package

sudo apt-get install libpolkit-gobject-1-0

Ok, tired this too and it said:

ibpolkit-gobject-1-0 is already the newest version (0.105-26ubuntu1).

Still no joy.

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[deadflowr]

Might be it needs the armhf version.
Try

sudo apt-get install libpolkit-gobject-1-0:armhf

[ActionParsnip]

To access the files on your pi from your tablet etc you can install openssh-server and you will get an SFTP service. You can connect to this from Windows and tablets and use your Raspberry Pi credentials to authenticate. You can also use SSH (like PuTTY) to connect to the server and manipulate the OS in CLI (Software updates are dead handy here).

[netwarrior2]

Might be it needs the armhf version.
Try

sudo apt-get install libpolkit-gobject-1-0:armhf

Ok, this time it did something:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpolkit-gobject-1-0:armhf
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

But still failed to open:

anydesk

as it gave this new error:
anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libbcm_host.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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[ActionParsnip]

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/78719/missing-libbcm-host-so-when-running-chromium-browser
https://github.com/bamarni/pi64/issues/26

[netwarrior2]

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/78719/missing-libbcm-host-so-when-running-chromium-browser
https://github.com/bamarni/pi64/issues/26

after reading these i tired this but it didn't work.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libraspberrypi0 libraspberrypi-dev libraspberrypi-doc libraspberrypi-bin


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[netwarrior2]

and found my way to this page:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/releases

Since my Opt/vc folder is empty i tried to get Ark to extract the Opt/vc folder from the archive (firmware-1.20200601-arm64.tar.gz) but i don't have sufficient permissions.

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[kabir18]

Yepp did everything above, but got this error:
anydesk: error while loading shared libraries: libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

tried to check everywhere, even did necessary installs. Put files on desired locations, but same error everytime.
Files:

/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0
/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpolkit-gobject-1-0/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libpolkit-gobject-1-0/copyright

[wildmanne39]

Hello and welcome to the forum kabir18, please start your own thread instead of posting in someone else's so you can get the individual help you need.

Thanks

[ActionParsnip]

Seems the PPA is dead
https://launchpad.net/~rpi-distro/+archive/ubuntu/ppa