How To Install freerdp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp on Rocky Linux 8. freerdp is Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freerdp.

Install freerdp on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freerdp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freerdp

Install freerdp on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the freerdp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freerdp

freerdp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/winpr-hash
/usr/bin/winpr-makecert
/usr/bin/wlfreerdp
/usr/bin/xfreerdp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/ffac1158b53c23ad7d9c9804bbd7478088cf27
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/3903eb99eef302192b0d897b1eb8a441fd356e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/96a428d0ae184efe0fd99f9b27a4d4d16db258
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/c4d672240c9c2049784246e7e9f906654166c6
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.