How To Install rdesktop on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdesktop on Rocky Linux 8. rdesktop is X client for remote desktop into Windows Terminal Server

Introduction

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

What is rdesktop

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.

We can use yum or dnf to install rdesktop on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rdesktop.

Install rdesktop 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 rdesktop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rdesktop

Install rdesktop 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 rdesktop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rdesktop

How To Uninstall rdesktop on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove rdesktop

rdesktop Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/rdesktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/e4c0501bfc0b1244a9ad534f07440ed56ae55d
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/README.md
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/TODO
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/ipv6.txt
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/keymap-names.txt
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/keymapping.txt
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/licensing.txt
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/patches.txt
/usr/share/doc/rdesktop/redirection.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/rdesktop.1.gz
/usr/share/rdesktop
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ar
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/common
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/cs
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/da
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/de
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/de-ch
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-dv
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-gb
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-us
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/en-us-intl
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/es
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/et
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fi
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fo
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr-be
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr-ca
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/fr-ch
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/he
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/hr
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/hu
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/is
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/it
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ja
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ko
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/lt
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/lv
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/mk
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/modifiers
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/nl
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/nl-be
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/no
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/pl
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/pt
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/pt-br
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/ru
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/sk
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/sl
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/sv
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/th
/usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/tr

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rdesktop on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.