Linux

Use this Linux guide to install RustDesk on major distributions, review Wayland and login-screen limitations, and troubleshoot common permission issues such as SELinux policy blocks.

Which Linux package should you use?

Linux quick answers

• Use the native package for your distribution when possible.
• Wayland support is experimental since RustDesk 1.2.0.
• Remote access to the login screen still requires X11.
• If SELinux is enforced and you see avc: denied, apply the RustDesk SELinux policy guidance.

Installation

Ubuntu (≥ 18)

# please ignore the wrong disk usage report
sudo apt install -fy ./rustdesk-<version>.deb

For Ubuntu 18.04, please do below first for pipewire.

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream
sudo apt update

CentOS/Fedora (≥ 28)

sudo yum localinstall ./rustdesk-<version>.rpm

Arch Linux/Manjaro

sudo pacman -U ./rustdesk-<version>.pkg.tar.zst

openSUSE (≥ Leap 15.0)

sudo zypper install --allow-unsigned-rpm ./rustdesk-<version>-suse.rpm

AppImage

# For Fedora
sudo yum install libnsl
./rustdesk-<version>.AppImage

# For Ubuntu
sudo yum install libfuse2
./rustdesk-<version>.AppImage

Flatpak

flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak --user install ./rustdesk-<version>.flatpak
flatpak run com.rustdesk.RustDesk

X11 Required

RustDesk does not support Wayland yet; you need switch to X11 manually.

RustDesk now has experimental Wayland support since version 1.2.0.

Display Server

Ubuntu | Fedora | Arch Linux

Login Screen

Login screen using Wayland is not supported yet. If you wanna access login screen after reboot or logout with RustDesk, you need to change login screen to X11, please modify below line to WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf or /etc/gdm3/custom.conf:

#WaylandEnable=false