Installing the remoteit Desktop application

Section: remoteit Desktop for Windows, macOS, and Linux Updated: May 24, 2021 21:46

Choose your Operating System below to see detailed steps for installation.

Windows

Click this link to go to the remoteit Downloads page, then click on the orange arrow to download the Windows installer.

Double click on the downloaded executable file to open the installer.

You will see a User Account Control popup dialog asking for permission to continue. Click on "Yes".

You will see this dialog, even if it's the first time you have run the installer:

Next, you can choose the install location. We recommend the default for most people. Click on "Install" to continue.

If remote.it is already running, (say, if you had it installed previously and are now upgrading), you'll see this dialog. Click on "OK" to close remote.it temporarily in order to upgrade.

If you previously registered Services on this Device, you will now see this dialog. Unless you wish to unregister a previously registered Device, click on "No".

After a few more moments, the installation will complete. Click on "Finish" to close this dialog.

macOS

Click this link to go to the remoteit Downloads page, then click on the orange arrow to download the Mac installer.

Choose the "Open with..." option as shown, then click "OK".

After a few moments, this dialog will be shown. Drag the "remoteit" icon to the Applications folder.

This completes the installation of remoteit. Continue to the next page to launch the remoteit Desktop.

Linux

Installation packages are available for:

Arm v7 Debian, e.g. Raspbian on Raspberry Pi
Arm64 Debian, e.g. 64-bit Raspbian and ARM64 Ubuntu AWS images
x86_64 Debian, e.g. 64-bit Ubuntu, Mint, Debian

Click this link to go to the remoteit Downloads page, then select "Linux" as shown.

Click on the orange download link for the package that matches your system. Save the file to your hard drive.

Open a terminal and navigate to your ~/Downloads folder. Find the .deb file which you just downloaded. Note the file name for the next step.

gary@Old-Gigabyte:~$ cd ~/Downloads/
gary@Old-Gigabyte:~/Downloads$ ls *.deb
remoteit-amd64-installer.deb
gary@Old-Gigabyte:~/Downloads$

Update your package lists.

sudo apt update

Now run the command line installer, modifying the .deb file name as needed.

sudo apt install -y ./remoteit-amd64-installer.deb

This completes the installation of the remoteit package on Debian Linux.