Its not as simple as download and install or dpkg -i teamviewer.deb. Now with 32 bit systems a simple dpkg -i teamviewer.deb might suffice. By teamviewer.deb, i mean the full file name whatever it is, too lazy too copypaste it right now.

HOW TO TEAMVIEWER ON KALI LINUX
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FIRST JUST JUST TRY THEN
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Download Teamviewer version 7 or 8 in the 64 bit for Ubuntu/debian, (i did because 64 bit because I have 64 bit machine)

# cd folderwheredownload
# dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.deb

IF GET DEPENDENCY ISSUES
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First check your architecture
# uname -a
Linux kalikos 3.7-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali8 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Then check current architecture with dpkg
# dpkg –print-architecture
you should see amd64 (Thats because thats the flavor of kali I installed, they dont have an intel64 – remember amd64 is just 64 bit and it works for intel and amd… amd made 64 bit first and then intel adopted it as well – also my pcs “cat /proc/cpuinfo” shows this in case you are curious: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz)

For teamviewer install to work right we will need to add a foreign architecture
# dpkg –print-foreign-architectures

It should be empty, but if its not thats okay, just make sure you add i386 like this
# dpkg –add-architecture i386

Confirm its added with:
# dpkg –print-foreign-architectures
You should now see the i386

anyhow you might need to run dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.dev again so that it tries to fix those same errors.

fix errors like this, they should download alot of things
# apt-get -f install <— note probably didnt need this, but I ran it like that oh well
# apt-get update
# apt-get -f install <— technically tou dont need to run this after but I did

Now running this will fix
# dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.deb

teamviewer &

Note: you will be okay to leave the extra added foreign architecture but you can remove it with

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Below is from: http://dummy2dummies.blogspot.com/2013/03/installing-teamviewer-8-on-kali-64bit.html

Installing Teamviewer 64bit on Kali OS.
While I was trying to install Teamviewer on my 64 bit Kali OS install,I ran into some missing dependencies. One of them was a i386 package, which cannot be installed on 64 bit unless multiple architecture support is enabled in your Install.
For this we first allow i386 to be installed as a multiarch.
root@kali:/home/dhakkan/Downloads# dpkg –add-architecture i386
Now we need to update our repositories.
root@kali:/home/dhakkan/Downloads# apt-get update

Now we can deploy i386 packages on 64 bit as multiarch

Now time to install the package.

dhakkan@kali:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux_x64.deb

You will get errors for unmet dependency which can be installed by using following command

dhakkan@kali:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install -f

and it should be good to go.
My update to it:
Then just try to run the app “teamviewer” tab tab and see if you get teamviewer and teamviewer7… if you do just run teamviewer7 & there is no need to run the dpkg command again. The teamviewer & will launch what looks like the windows installer for the app and then you hit next for the app to start (note there isnt an installer its more of a disclaimer my bad).

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