How To Install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 is:
The configuration files needed and scripts required to login to a fullscreen RDP session using LightDM’s Arctica Greeter and FreeRDPv2’s xfreerdp.
There are three methods to install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
Install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
Install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
How To Uninstall lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
Uninstall lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
Remove lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 Configurations and Data
To remove lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
Remove lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lightdm-remote-session-freerdp2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.