How To Install freerdp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. freerdp.x86_64 is Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `freerdp.x86_64`

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 to install freerdp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freerdp.x86_64.

Install freerdp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freerdp.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freerdp.x86_64

How To Uninstall freerdp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the freerdp.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove freerdp.x86_64

freerdp.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/winpr-hash
/usr/bin/winpr-makecert
/usr/bin/wlfreerdp
/usr/bin/xfreerdp
/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

freerdp.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.