How To Install freerdp on CentOS 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freerdp on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freerdp.

Install freerdp on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 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 CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 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 CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove freerdp

freerdp Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/winpr-hash
/usr/bin/winpr-makecert
/usr/bin/wlfreerdp
/usr/bin/xfreerdp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/fffb973ea1cb9c480669ed3abc3dcf88e938a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/c5c9404d2fbb4dbf621ff98b3a567d91dce907
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/e13197776a83eb5f65a2d6d8c495cd4f2cd643
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/ec95072b9537b15a0e30af62a9460896e360e3
/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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.