How To Install remmina on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remmina
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is remmina
remmina is:
Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks.
Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent user interface.
Currently RDP, VNC, SPICE, WWW, NX, XDMCP, EXEC and SSH are supported. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
There are three methods to install remmina
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 remmina Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install remmina
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install remmina
Install remmina Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install remmina
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install remmina
Install remmina 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 remmina
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install remmina
How To Uninstall remmina on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the remmina
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove remmina
Uninstall remmina And Its Dependencies
To uninstall remmina
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove remmina
Remove remmina Configurations and Data
To remove remmina
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge remmina
Remove remmina configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove remmina
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remmina
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remmina
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.