[CentOS] Unable to run TeamViewer 13 under Centos 7 (amd64)

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Manish Jain wrote:
> 
> On 12/19/17 19:55, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 12/19/2017 07:16 AM, Manish Jain wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am writing a book about Unix (Linux / FreeBSD) and my book needs
>>> documentation for TeamViewer13 running under Centos 7 (64-bit).
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, running TeamViewer does not get me a GUI -- the install
>>> went smoothly and teamviewerd daemon is running.
>>>
>>> This happens only under Centos. Under Manjaro, the same tarball
>>> (teamviewer_13.0.5494_amd64.tar.xz) gets me a nice TeamViewer window.
>>> But I need documentation for Centos.
>>>
>>> I have tried reinstalling via rpm (teamviewer_13.0.5693.x86_64.rpm), but
>>> that does not improve things. With the teamviewer command, I just get
>>> "Launching TeamViewer GUI" - but nothing actually happens after that.
>>>
>>> Can anyone please help me fix the issue ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> https://download.teamviewer.com/download/linux/teamviewer.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>> That seems to be the CentOS 7 x86_64 version they say SHOULD work
>> (currently version 13.0.6634-0).
>>
>> After downloading that, I did (as root):
>>
>> yum install ./teamviewer.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> It pulled in a bunch of qt5 dependencies.
>>
>> After install, I ran:
>>
>> teamviewer
>>
>> it worked fine.
>>
> 
> Hi Johnny,
> 
> Thanks for replying.
> 
> I seem to be having a very bad day.
> 
> I uninstalled the old TV, and installed the version you indicated, but I
> get nothing at all:
> 
> /home/bourne # teamviewer
> 
> Init...
> CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
> Checking setup...
> Launching TeamViewer ...
> Launching TeamViewer GUI ...
> /home/bourne #
> 
> I deleted ~/.config/teamviewer* and ~/.local/share/teamviewer*, but
> still no luck.
> 
> Is it possible that this has something to do with Centos 7 running as a
> vm (under VirtualBox) in my box ? (But then, Manjaro vm works fine).

Do you have a GUI running?