How To Install rdesktop on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rdesktop on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rdesktop.
Install rdesktop on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rdesktop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rdesktop
Install rdesktop on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rdesktop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rdesktop
rdesktop Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/rdesktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/7cb9c49579a2795e581e5fcd7c2ffa6a4a0764
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.