Veyon is an Open Source computer monitoring and classroom management software. It enables teachers to view and control computer labs and interact with students. Veyon is available in different languages and provides lots of useful features:
- see what's going on in computer labs in overview mode and take screenshots
- remote control computers to support and help users
- broadcast teacher's screen to students in realtime by using demo mode (either in fullscreen or in a window)
- lock workstations for attracting attention to teacher
- send text messages to students
- powering on/off and rebooting computers remote
- remote logoff and remote execution of arbitrary commands/scripts
- home schooling - Veyon's network technology is not restricted to a subnet and therefore students at home can join lessons via VPN connections just by installing the Veyon service
Copyright (c) 2004-2017 Tobias Doerffel / Veyon Solutions.
See the file COPYING for the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
Please refer to the official Veyon Administrator Manual at http://docs.veyon.io/en/latest/admin/index.html for information on the installation and configuration of Veyon.
Please refer to the official Veyon User Manual at http://docs.veyon.io/en/latest/user/index.html for information on how to use Veyon.
First grab the latest sources by cloning the Git repository and fetching all submodules:
git clone https://github.com/veyon/veyon.git
cd veyon
git submodule update --init
Requirements for Debian-based distributions:
- Build tools: g++ make cmake
- Qt5: qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools
- X11: xorg-dev libxtst-dev
- libjpeg: libjpeg-turbo8-dev
- zlib: zlib1g-dev
- OpenSSL: libssl-dev
- PAM: libpam0g-dev
- LZO: liblzo2-dev
- QCA: libqca2-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev
- LDAP: libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev
As root you can run
apt install g++ make cmake qtbase5-dev qtbase5-dev-tools qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools \
xorg-dev libxtst-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libpam0g-dev \
liblzo2-dev libqca2-dev libqca-qt5-2-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev
Requirements for RedHat-based distributions:
- Build tools: gcc-c++ make cmake
- Qt5: qt5-devel
- X11: libXtst-devel
- libjpeg: libjpeg-turbo-devel
- zlib: zlib-devel
- OpenSSL: openssl-devel
- PAM: pam-devel
- LZO: lzo-devel
- QCA: qca-devel qca-qt5-devel
- LDAP: openldap-devel libgsasl
As root you can run
dnf install gcc-g++ make cmake qt5-devel libXtst-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel zlib-devel \
openssl-devel pam-devel lzo-devel qca-devel qca-qt5-devel openldap-devel libgsasl
Run the following commands:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
If some requirements are not fullfilled, CMake will inform you about it and you will have to install the missing software before continuing.
You can now generate a package (.deb or .rpm depending what system you are in). For generating a package you can run
make package
Then you'll get something like veyon_x.y.z_arch.deb or veyon-x.y.z.arch.rpm
Alternatively you can install the built binaries directly (not recommended for production systems) by running the following command as root:
make install
If you are interested in Veyon, its programming, artwork, testing or something like that, you're welcome to participate in the development of Veyon!
Before starting the implementation of a new feature, please always open an issue at https://github.com/veyon/veyon/issues to start a discussion about your intended implementation. There may be different ideas, improvements, hints or maybe an already ongoing work on this feature.