How To Install freerdp on Fedora 34

freerdp is Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

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.