Installing Viber on Linux

 Viber supports installation on Ubuntu and Fedora Linux distributions, as well as all derivative distributions.

Note!

We will consider the process of installing Viber on the Linux operating system using the example of the Linux Mint 18 distribution kit (in this case, with the Mate graphical shell).

Viber can only be installed on a 64-bit system, 32-bit systems are currently not supported. You can check which system you have installed using the uname -m command, which must be run in the Linux terminal, it should return the value x86_64 (or you can simply launch the welcome screen from the control center, where the necessary information is displayed).

Step 1

There is no Viber program in the Linux Mint repositories, so we will download the deb package from the official site and install it manually using the terminal.

To do this, launch the terminal, for example, using the icon on the panel or from the Mint->Terminal menu.

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Step 2

Then we run the command to download the installation package of the Viber program, for example, let's download the package to the "Downloads" directory of the current user using the wget utility.

   

   wget -P ~/Downloads/ http://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb

Step 3

Now we can proceed directly to installing the Viber program. To do this, let's use the apt-get command, since in this case all the packages that are needed for Viber to work will be installed automatically (at the prompt for entering a password, enter the user's password).

   

   sudo apt-get -y install ~/Downloads/viber.deb

You can also install Viber using the dpkg package manager, but in this case we install all dependencies with a separate command.

Installing Viber

   

   sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/viber.deb

Installing dependencies

   

   sudo apt-get -f -y install

To remove the installation file, you can use the following command, or go to the Downloads folder using a graphical file manager and remove the package there.

   

   sudo rm -f ~/Downloads/viber.deb

If you need to uninstall viber, then you can use the following command to do this.

   

   sudo apt-get -y --purge remove viber

To remove all related packages that we no longer need, after we remove Viber, we need to run the following command, thus we can free up disk space.

   

   sudo apt-get -y autoremove