Ok so it took some time, but was able to install and use teamviewer on a remote 14.04, at last.
This post was of some help.
Basically (that part is actually an answer by itself!)
- install the 32 bits package version (14.04 is multiarch)
- start the daemon, set a password (see link above)
- get the ID from
/opt/teamviewer/config/global.com
- start the client as regular user
and after a few core dumps (harmless seemingly) of the daemon (Linux binary) while setting password, ranting about TV and their lack of option consistency (and no error when entering a wrong option), ... having to start the client (using wine since no bin client exist seemingly) for some reasons (while being remote).. (All of that question the quality of TV developments, but that's not the point...)
And that's it - or... is it?
Well, had to figure out that the error "Authentication rejected" kept coming on to the (actual) client (a Mac) - the logs being useless - because the client (server side!) was expecting a License Agreement OK click... (used xdotool, gnome-screenshot, rsync to visualize a screenshot of the Ubuntu screen!)
Finally using xdotool could manage to remote-click the OK (license agreement) + the next warning... and hurra! Worked!
For the sake of completeness, efficiency and serenity... when a local install was not possible/made prior to remote access
- is there a way to install teamviewer without all these pirouettes - i.e. at least without having to locally agree the License Agreement (which defeats the purpose of a remote install - xdotool is a nice tool but that's really awkward!) ?
In TeamViewer 10 there is a option
licence
, with which you can accept the EULA.You may need to restart teamviewer daemon with
$teamviewer daemon restart
.