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Giovanni Panozzo edited this page Dec 30, 2017 · 53 revisions

Welcome to the Remmina wiki!

FOR END USERS

Usually Remmina is included in your GNU/Linux distribution or in an external repository. Do not ask for distribution packages or precompiled binaries here. This is a development site.

For Ubuntu users we have an official PPA with Remmina 1.2

https://launchpad.net/~remmina-ppa-team/+archive/ubuntu/remmina-next

To install it, just copy and paste the following three lines on a terminal window

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret libfreerdp-plugins-standard

Don't forget to exit/kill al your running instances of remmina. The best way to do it is to reboot your PC. Or, if you cannot reboot, kill all running remmina with

sudo killall remmina

By default the RDP, SSH and SFTP plugins are installed. You can view a list of available plugins with apt-cache search remmina-plugin

The remmina-next PPA can be used for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, provided that you are running one of the supported *ubuntu derivatives on your Raspberry Pi.

For Debian 9 (Stretch) users, Remmina is available from the Backports repository

Remmina is not available on the default Debian repositories.

The Debian Backports repository must be enabled to install it, see this blog post for more information.

To install Remmina from Debian Backports, just copy and paste the following lines on a terminal window:

echo 'deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list >> /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -t stretch-backports remmina remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-gnome libfreerdp-plugins-standard

For users with a distro that supports Snap packages, including Ubuntu

We are still working to deliver a stable Snap package, but we still have many issues with SNAP packaging. If you encounter any issues, try first an other mean of installation and only after report the problem through https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues. Snap currently lacks some functionalities, read this chapter to find more informations. Please also note note that currently the SNAP package does not work under Ubuntu 17.10 + Wayland, see issue #1414.

Ensure you've snapd installed in your system. Then in Ubuntu you can install the last release from the Software center, looking for remmina, otherwise you can install it from terminal with:

sudo snap install remmina

Please note that this is not enough to make remmina fully functional, due to some limitations of the snap subsystem.

Some features, for example password saving via a keyring, are disabled and must be manually enabled:

sudo snap connect remmina:avahi-observe :avahi-observe # servers discovery
sudo snap connect remmina:cups-control :cups-control # printing
sudo snap connect remmina:mount-observe :mount-observe # mount management
sudo snap connect remmina:password-manager-service :password-manager-service # password manager

Some features just don't work, for example accessing your personal ~/.ssh directory is not possible for a snap. You have to manually copy your ~/.ssh/* files under ~/snap/remmina/common/.ssh/

If you want to install latest git revision of remmina, you can use it from the edge channel:

sudo snap install remmina  --edge

Or update the current installed version with the selected channel:

sudo snap refresh remmina --channel=edge # use --channel=stable otherwise

Snap packages will be updated automatically and will include both latest FreeRDP git and latest libssh 0.7 release (for better security).

Fedora

Hubbitus (Pavel Alexeev) provided us a copr, to install just execute as root:

# dnf copr enable hubbitus/remmina-next
# dnf upgrade --refresh 'remmina*' 'freerdp*'

Sabayon (Gentoo Binary based)

  • Install :
equo- i net-misc/remmina

Gentoo

  • To build and install emerge -av net-misc/remmina

  • To build a binary and install

emerge -avb net-misc/remmina

emerge -avk remmina*.tar.bz  
# From cp /usr/portage/packages/net-misc remmina* > /mnt/some-usb-stick to multiple boxes
emerge -avk =net-misc/remmina-#??Version number  
# if you have a Bin-host/Binary package server defined on your lan
  • (version???) on other machines as a binary if you have many Gentoo machines... directly from file else bin host

Arch Linux based

Install remmina-git from AUR

There are also some external, not supported plugins provided by Muflone :

FOR DEVELOPERS, PACKAGERS AND TESTERS

CURRENT STATUS

Here, on github, we have three official branches:

"next" branch: the future 1.2.0 version, which compiles with current freerdp master branch and will compile with freerdp 2.0 when released. We will do code developments and bugfixes here, on the next branch.

"master" branch: the 1.1.2 stable version, which compiles with freerdp 1.1 stable. We will only provide security fixes or critical bugs (i.e.: data corruption) fixes on version 1.1.X.

"gtk2" branch: a special remmina 1.1.1 version compatible with GTK2, compiles with freerdp 1.1 stable

REMMINA BUILDUING GUIDES

REMMINA GENERATED DOCUMENTATION

Remmina Development Doc

Links

We also have a website: http://www.remmina.org