How To Install freerdp on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp
on Fedora 34.
What is freerdp
The xfreerdp & wlfreerdp Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients from the FreeRDP project. xfreerdp & wlfreerdp can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp and VirtualBox.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install freerdp
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freerdp.
Install freerdp on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freerdp
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freerdp
Install freerdp on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install freerdp
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freerdp
How To Uninstall freerdp on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the freerdp
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freerdp
freerdp Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/winpr-hash
/usr/bin/winpr-makecert
/usr/bin/wlfreerdp
/usr/bin/xfreerdp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/d74ec19f7b63582bad6e90a3650b9ae8c90f21
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/97042c7d12721a97a70d0cbe6b94f6e2eb3116
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/de6daafff94234e59635ed97c6655aedc75c95
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/f26dc64e02245147ac77676f3e48414c99148a
/usr/share/man/man1/winpr-hash.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/winpr-makecert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wlfreerdp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xfreerdp.1.gz
/usr/bin/winpr-hash
/usr/bin/winpr-makecert
/usr/bin/wlfreerdp
/usr/bin/xfreerdp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/30fb6b44772bf096c53246e472441299b8396a
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/b40e62152a2de60c737f5ed63a870f8bd59185
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/ee677f71b02a0b55eb0d6b0c6de79f62131bbd
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/b1574355de06aa0b6c2672f647ad66091382e0
/usr/share/man/man1/winpr-hash.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/winpr-makecert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wlfreerdp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xfreerdp.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.