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| Linux | Install RustDesk on Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch, openSUSE, and NixOS. Review Wayland notes, AppImage and Flatpak options, and SELinux troubleshooting. |
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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?
| Situation | Best package |
|---|---|
| Ubuntu or Debian-based systems | .deb |
| Fedora or CentOS-based systems | .rpm |
| Arch Linux or Manjaro | .pkg.tar.zst |
| openSUSE | SUSE-specific .rpm |
| Portable single-file usage | AppImage |
| Sandboxed desktop install | Flatpak |
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
{{% notice note %}} Please reboot to make above changes taking effect. {{% /notice %}}
Permissions Issue
If SELinux is enabled, RustDesk will not work properly in either X11 or Wayland environments, related issues.
You can run:
$ sudo grep 'comm="rustdesk"' /var/log/audit/audit.log | tail -1
type=AVC msg=audit(1697902459.165:707): avc: denied { name_connect } for pid=31346 comm="rustdesk" dest=53330 scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:ephemeral_port_t:s0 tclass=tcp_socket permissive=0
{{% notice note %}}
The number in parentheses after audit is timestamp.
{{% /notice %}}
If the output contains avc: denied, you need to add SELinux policies, please refer to SELinux.