# Desktop Beta Program
**URL:** https://forum.remote.it/t/desktop-beta-program/111
**Category:** Desktop Beta
**Created:** [December 23, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/desktop-beta-program/111 "2019-12-23T21:00:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@jamie](https://forum.remote.it/u/jamie)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/desktop-beta-program/111/1 "2019-12-23T21:00:06Z")
The new remote.it Desktop beta app makes it easy to use your remote.it services. Please review, test and provide feedback as part of the beta program. Thank you for your help and we hope you enjoy remote.it!
## Powerful connections
Every connection in Desktop is a direct peer to peer connection for the fastest speeds. Peer to peer connections also have the benefit of persisting until manually closed and feature throughput monitoring:
In addition the desktop app allows you to share a connection with other users on the network. You can connect to a remote device and allow other users to connect to it through your system on the port you choose. Your local shared connections have the same great security as a remote proxy, only on your private network.
**Advanced users** can easily change the local IP Address and Port that your connection is bound to.
### Quick launching
Having persistent connections makes it easy for you to bookmark and use remote.it in the background, but if you are in the app, you can also launch a few other services with a single click. HTTP, SSH, and VNC are all supported integrations.
## Hosted services
You can now easily setup a device through a simple interface. Mac, Windows, Ubuntu Linux and Raspberry Pi can all be quickly set up to host any local services. Web sites, SSH, VNC and RDP are common services people make available. And now with desktop you can also even share the remote.it Desktop admin panel so that you can remotely manage your remote.it services and connections.
When your system is set up as a host it will even run in the background as a system service, so you don’t even need to be logged in to access it through remote.it.
**Advanced users** can even jump host services from other systems on the local network. So if you would like to stream a video camera feed through remote.it without installing anything on your camera, it’s easier than ever. You just have to specify a “Host IP Address” of a system on the local network.
### Network scanning
Local area network scanning is now built in. Scan your network for local services and add them quickly and easily with a click:
**Advanced users** with two networks connected can even share connections across either network in out of band mode. For instance if servicing a system on a private connected network you could connect your cell network and provide remote.it access to the private system.
## Platforms
Download remote.it for the following platforms from [GitHub](https://github.com/remoteit/desktop/releases/latest):
- Windows
- Mac
- Raspberry Pi
- Ubuntu Linux
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### Author:  [@Arbi](https://forum.remote.it/u/Arbi)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/desktop-beta-program/111/2 "2022-08-27T14:22:23Z")
hello @jamie,
I want to use remoteit desktop version in the server so i can manage my devices through a web application hosted in the same server in DigitalOcean.
droplet system: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86\_64)
i’v tried to install linux version, using cmd:
_sudo wget [https://github.com/remoteit/desktop/releases/download/v3.11.5/remoteit-amd64-installer.deb](https://github.com/remoteit/desktop/releases/download/v3.11.5/remoteit-amd64-installer.deb)_
_sudo apt install ./remoteit-amd64-installer.deb_
and always get this:
\*Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting ‘remoteit’ instead of ‘./remoteit-amd64-installer.deb’
The following NEW packages will be installed:
remoteit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/77.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 312 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /root/remoteit/remoteit-amd64-installer.deb remoteit amd64 3.11.5 [77.7 MB]
Selecting previously unselected package remoteit.
(Reading database … 150367 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/remoteit-amd64-installer.deb …
Unpacking remoteit (3.11.5) …
Setting up remoteit (3.11.5) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) …
Scanning processes…
Scanning linux images…
Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
No services need to be restarted.
No containers need to be restarted.
No user sessions are running outdated binaries.
No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on this host.
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file ‘/root/remoteit/remoteit-amd64-installer.deb’ couldn’t be accessed by user ‘\_apt’. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb-ams3-01:~/remoteit#sudo remoteit help
[0827/141433.933961:FATAL:electron\_main\_delegate.cc(292)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See [638180 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail](https://crbug.com/638180).
Trace/breakpoint trap\*
i don’t know what that means. do you have any idea ?
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### Author:  [@jamie](https://forum.remote.it/u/jamie)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.remote.it/t/desktop-beta-program/111/3 "2022-09-02T00:47:49Z")
I’d try the one line installation command within our portal (app.remote.it) and desktop app. Go to the blue “+” button and select linux. It should work. If you continue to have issues simply contact our in-app support or chat. _Thanks for using remote.it_!
