Fix sound issue for Teamviewer 9 on Ubuntu 13.10 (valid also for Teamviewer 11 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

Question

TeamViewer gets shipped with Wine 1.6. Pulseaudio is working in installed wine 1.6.1 from PPA. Copying over the winepulse.drv.so and fakedlls/winepulse.drv does not work. You can approve this with teamviewer --winecfg.

I've tried running TeamViewer with local installed wine by uncomment the line

### USE_LOCAL_WINE="yes"

in /opt/teamviewer9/tv_bin/script/tvw_config. But that brings other errors.

May be we can update upgrade TeamViewers wine to 1.6.1 instead using local installed wine.

Answer 1

Finally TeamViewer is running with sound (the suggested fix also works for Teamviewer 11 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by simply considering the different path /opt/teamviewer11/).

This is what you need to do:

1. Add wine repository and install wine1.6:

   sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install wine1.6
   

2. Download and install TeamViewer:

   wget http://download.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb
   sudo gdebi teamviewer_linux.deb
   

3. Copy over wine binaries:

   sudo cp /usr/bin/wine /usr/bin/wineserver /usr/bin/wine-preloader /opt/teamviewer9/tv_bin/wine/bin/
   sudo cp /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libwine.so.1.0 /opt/teamviewer9/tv_bin/wine/lib/
   sudo cp -R /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/* /opt/teamviewer9/tv_bin/wine/lib/wine/
   

4. Reconfigure your teamviewer profile and start winecfg to see if audio is working.

   teamviewer --update-profile
   teamviewer --winecfg