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v010dya
Asked: 2020-08-08 20:49:37 +0800 CST

What is a good alternative to a discontinued version of Mikogo

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I am a tutor in computer programming. As such I do lots of work via online conferencing, my most common way to work is to use Skype for audio and Mikogo for my students to provide me a way to see their screen and for me to click somewhere on it, so they can see where I have clicked. I very explicitly do not want to control anything that is happening on their machine, I wish for them to do all the work rather than me typing code on their machine.

A while ago Mikogo has stopped providing GNU/Linux installation, and I really do not like the idea of "just install it under wine or other emulation software". The point is to be able to have a solution that is the same for all operating systems.

The things that I absolutely require:

  • should work under GNU/Linux as a receiver of a session (I am on Xubuntu)
  • should be able to start a session on GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS (unfortunately some people do use the latter two)
  • should be able to connect and see the screen without controlling the machine
  • should be able to give indication to a specific area of the screen when I click there

Other things like recording sessions, audio conferencing, file transfers, etc. are not required. However, I would prefer free software.

P.S. I have read Best VNC / remote desktop software for assistance But there the user specifically asks to control the other machine, which is exactly opposite of what I want.

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1 Answers

  1. According to ArchLinux AUR this software is still can be installed.

    So you still can install using commands below:

    sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxtst6:i386 libsm6:i386 libxrender1:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://download.mikogo4.com/mikogo.tar.gz
tar -xf mikogo.tar.gz

sudo mkdir -p -m 0755 /usr/local/bin
sudo install -m 0755 mikogo4.5/mikogo /usr/local/bin/
sudo install -m 0755 mikogo4.5/sessionplayer /usr/local/bin/

    Note: I have tested the installation method above on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS which ran using Xorg.

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