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I am trying to run TeamViewer on Ubuntu Server 18.04 through Putty connection but I am getting following errors. I have already sudo installed Ubuntu Desktop on this server and I am hoping to create a remote connect to the GUI but I am stuck here

a@gisdev05:~$ teamviewer
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/a/.local/share/teamviewer13’: Permission denied
Error: Could not create /home/a/.local/share/teamviewer13/logfiles
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/a/.local/share/teamviewer13’: Permission denied
Error: Could not create /home/a/.local/share/teamviewer13/logfiles
Error: InitDirs failed. (2)

a@gisdev05:~$ ^C

I was however able to run the TeamViewer before running

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Can you please let me know how to fix this?

You inadvertently changed the owner/group on the directory /home/a/.local/share/teamviewer13. You need to fix this as root. You can do this using sudo:

$ sudo chown -R a.a /home/a/.local

-or- to use the user's default group:

$ sudo chown -R a: /home/a/.local

With this you should see this directory listed so that the owner is the user a and the group is also a.

NOTE: Your user a's group may not be a, it might be something else, you can confirm like this:

$ id -a
uid=1000(vagrant) gid=1000(vagrant) groups=1000(vagrant)

Here my user is vagrant, and the group is vagrant. You can confirm your directory ownership like this:

$ cd $HO<E/.config

$ pwd
/home/vagrant/.config

$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 vagrant vagrant 4096 Jul 3 22:52 abrt

NOTE: In the above you can see vagrant 2 times. The first is the owner and the second is the group.