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RustDesk Installation Script

This script provides an easy way to install and uninstall RustDesk on Debian-based Linux systems (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.).

Features

• Automatic detection of the latest RustDesk version
• Architecture detection (x86_64, aarch64, etc.)
• Handles all dependencies
• Supports both install and uninstall

Requirements

• Debian-based Linux system
• Root privileges (sudo)
• Internet connection

Usage

Install

To install the latest version of RustDesk, run:

wget -q -O /tmp/rustdesk-update.sh https://gist.github.com/evilbunny2008/f105cd959b6477d89977217319dca2c8/raw/a86357335adcbdb0290be3345078ae769838453d/rustdesk-update.sh
chmod +x /tmp/rustdesk-update.sh
/tmp/rustdesk-update.sh
rm -f /tmp/rustdesk-update.sh

Uninstall

To remove RustDesk from your system, run:

wget -q -O /tmp/rustdesk-update.sh https://gist.github.com/evilbunny2008/f105cd959b6477d89977217319dca2c8/raw/a86357335adcbdb0290be3345078ae769838453d/rustdesk-update.sh
chmod +x /tmp/rustdesk-update.sh
/tmp/rustdesk-update.sh -a uninstall
rm -f /tmp/rustdesk-update.sh

What the script does

Install:

1. Checks for root privileges
2. Fetches the latest RustDesk version from GitHub
3. Installs required dependencies
4. Downloads and installs the RustDesk package
5. Cleans up temporary files

Uninstall:

1. Removes RustDesk package
2. Removes any unused dependencies

Support

For RustDesk related issues, please visit the RustDesk GitHub repository.

Changes to this forked copy - Applied some minor tweaks

• Credit for the original rustdesk.sh
• Now checks to see if RustDesk is installed, so the script doesn't blindly try to unistall something not installed
• Only install if the local version is older than the GitHub version, or isn't installed.
• When run by a user account the script will install the rustdesk.desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications/ to force a menu refresh.
• Not all systems have, or need, gnome-menus installed, removed from list of packages to be installed before installing RustDesk

rustdesk-update.sh

#!/bin/bash

USERID=""
ACTION=""

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then
    USERID="$EUID"
fi

# Parse options
while getopts "u:a:" opt; do
    case "$opt" in
        u) USERID="$OPTARG" ;;
        a) ACTION="$OPTARG" ;;
    esac
done

if [ "$ACTION" != "" ]; then
    if [ "${ACTION,,}" != "uninstall" ]; then
        echo "Usage: $0 [-a uninstall] [-u <userid>]"
        exit 0
    else
        ACTION="uninstall"
    fi
fi

echo "EUID:   $EUID"
echo "UserID: $USERID"
echo "Action: $ACTION"

# If not run by root, restart the script with sudo
if [ "$EUID" -gt 0 ]; then
    echo "Requesting sudo privileges for userid=$USERID..."
    CMD=""
    [ "$ACTION" = "uninstall" ] && CMD="-a uninstall"
    echo "Re-run the script: $0 $CMD -u $USERID"
    exec sudo "$0" -u "$USERID" $CMD
    exit $?
fi

echo "Check if script was passed a USERID or not"
USERID="${USERID:-0}"
if [ "$USERID" != "0" ]; then
    GROUPID=$(id -g "$USERID")
    HOME_DIR=$(getent passwd "$USERID" | cut -d: -f6)
    SOURCE_FILE="/usr/share/applications/rustdesk.desktop"
    TARGET_FILE="$HOME_DIR/.local/share/applications/rustdesk.desktop"
    TARGET_DIR=$(dirname "$TARGET_FILE")
fi

echo "Check to see if RustDesk is installed, and if it is get it's version from dpkg"
INSTALLED=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}' rustdesk 2>/dev/null || echo "none")

echo "Local Ver: $INSTALLED"

# Check for uninstall parameter
if [ "$ACTION" = "uninstall" ]; then
    if [ "$INSTALLED" != "none" ]; then
        echo "Uninstalling RustDesk..."
        apt purge -y rustdesk
        apt autoremove -y

        # If run by a user, clean up the .desktop file
        if [ "$USERID" != "0" ] && [ -d "$TARGET_DIR" ] && [ -f "$TARGET_FILE" ]; then
            echo "Deleting $TARGET_FILE..."
            rm "$TARGET_FILE"
        fi

        echo "RustDesk $INSTALLED has been successfully uninstalled from your system!"
    else
        echo "RustDesk isn't installed, so nothing to uninstall"
    fi
    exit 0
else
    packages=(libxdo3 desktop-file-utils hicolor-icon-theme)
    for pkg in "${packages[@]}"; do
        if ! dpkg -s "$pkg" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            echo "Installing RustDesk dependency $pkg..."
            apt install -y "$pkg"
        fi
    done
fi

# Get the current RustDesk version number from GitHub
ARCH=$(uname -m)
GITHUB_VERSION=$(wget -q -O - https://api.github.com/repos/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/latest | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")' | tr -d '\n' || echo -n "1.4.2")

echo "GitHub Ver: $GITHUB_VERSION"

# Check the local version number against the GitHub version
if [ "$INSTALLED" = "none" ]; then
    echo "RustDesk is not installed. Installing $GITHUB_VERSION..."
elif [ "$INSTALLED" = "$GITHUB_VERSION" ]; then
    echo "Your system is already up to date..."
    exit 0
else
    NEWER=$(printf "%s\n%s" "$INSTALLED" "$GITHUB_VERSION" | sort -V | tail -n1)
    if [ "$NEWER" != "$INSTALLED" ]; then
        echo "An upgrade is available ($INSTALLED → $GITHUB_VERSION)..."
    else
        echo "Installed version ($INSTALLED) is newer than GitHub version ($GITHUB_VERSION), won't downgrade local version..."
        exit 0
    fi
fi

TMP_DEB="/tmp/rustdesk.deb"
URL="https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases/download/${GITHUB_VERSION}/rustdesk-${GITHUB_VERSION}-${ARCH}.deb"

# Download RustDesk
echo "Downloading RustDesk..."
wget -q -O "$TMP_DEB" "$URL"

# Install RustDesk
echo "Installing RustDesk..."
dpkg -i "$TMP_DEB"

# Fix any potential dependency issues
apt -y -f install

# Clean up
rm -f "$TMP_DEB"

# If triggered by a user account copy rustdesk.desktop to local menu directory
if [ "$USERID" != "0" ]; then
    echo "Copying rustdesk.desktop for userid=$USERID..."
    if [ ! -d "$TARGET_DIR" ]; then
        mkdir -p "$TARGET_DIR"
    fi

    cp "$SOURCE_FILE" "$TARGET_FILE"
    chown "$USERID:$GROUPID" "$TARGET_FILE"
    chmod +x "$TARGET_FILE"
else
    echo "Skipping installation of a user rustdesk.desktop file since the script was started by root..."
fi

echo "RustDesk $GITHUB_VERSION has been successfully installed! You can now start RustDesk from your applications menu."