Compile on Fedora 20 ~ 26

Quick and dirty guide for compiling remmina on Fedora 20 - 26

These are the instructions for people who want to test the latest version of Remmina on Fedora 20 - 26

You will obtain Remmina and FreeRDP compiled under the /opt/remmina_devel/ subdir, so they will not mess up your system too much. This is ideal for testing remmina.

You will also find the uninstall instructions at the bottom of this page.

ChangeLog

• Initial write: Aug 23 2014.
• Updated: Aug 30 2014 (compile with libappindicator)
• Updated: Sep 2 2014 (notes for Gnome Shell Users)
• Update: Oct 3 2014 (change from branch "gtk3" to "next")
• Update Oct 15 2014: added -DWITH_CUPS=on -DWITH_WAYLAND=off to freerdp parameters
• Update June 17th 2017: added rpmfusion prereq for modern Fedora's ( tested on 26b1 )

use at your own risk

1. Update your system and install all packages required to build freerdp and remmina:

sudo yum -y update

and reboot if needed. Then install packages for freerdp, rpmfusion free is needed for ffmpeg-devel

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ cmake openssl-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel \
  libXinerama-devel libXcursor-devel \
  libXdamage-devel libXv-devel libxkbfile-devel alsa-lib-devel cups-devel ffmpeg-devel glib2-devel \
  pulseaudio-libs-devel git libssh-devel libXi-devel libXtst-devel xmlto gstreamer1-devel \
  libXrandr-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel

and then install packages for remmina

sudo yum install gtk3-devel libgcrypt-devel libssh-devel libxkbfile-devel openjpeg2-devel \
 gnutls-devel libgnome-keyring-devel avahi-ui-devel avahi-ui-gtk3 \
 libvncserver-devel vte3-devel libappindicator-devel libappindicator-gtk3 libappindicator-gtk3-devel \
 telepathy-glib-devel libSM-devel webkitgtk4-devel json-glib-devel libsoup-devel

2. Remove freerdp-x11 package and all packages containing the string remmina in the package name.

sudo rpm -e remmina remmina-devel remmina-plugins-gnome remmina-plugins-nx remmina-plugins-rdp remmina-plugins-telepathy remmina-plugins-vnc remmina-plugins-xdmcp

3. Create a new directory for development in your home directory, and cd into it

mkdir ~/remmina_devel
cd ~/remmina_devel

4. Download the latest source code of FreeRDP from its master branch

git clone https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.git
cd FreeRDP

5. Configure FreeRDP for compilation (don't forget to include -DWITH_PULSE=ON)

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DWITH_SSE2=ON -DWITH_PULSE=ON -DWITH_CUPS=on -DWITH_WAYLAND=off -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/remmina_devel/freerdp .

Please note that the above line will make FreeRDP install in /opt/remmina_devel/freerdp

6. Compile FreeRDP and install

make && sudo make install

7. Make your system dynamic loader aware of the new libraries you installed. For Fedora x64:

echo /opt/remmina_devel/freerdp/lib64/ | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/freerdp_devel.conf > /dev/null
sudo ldconfig

For fedora 32 bit (i686) you have to change the path of the source lib folder in the first line.

8. Link executable in /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s /opt/remmina_devel/freerdp/bin/xfreerdp /usr/local/bin/

9. Test the new freerdp by connecting to a RDP host

xfreerdp +clipboard /sound:rate:44100,channel:2 /v:hostname /u:username

10. Now clone remmina repository to your devel dir:

cd ~/remmina_devel
git clone https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina.git

11. Configure Remmina for compilation

cd Remmina
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/remmina_devel/remmina -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/remmina_devel/freerdp --build=build .

12. Compile remmina and install it

make && sudo make install

13. Link the executable

sudo ln -s /opt/remmina_devel/remmina/bin/remmina /usr/local/bin/

14. Run remmina

remmina

NOTES for execution:

• Icons and .desktop files are not installed, so don't search for remmina in Gnome Shell. You can only launch it from a terminal or pressing ALT-F2 and typing remmina.
• Gnome Shell will never show you the system tray icon and menu. Press Super+M to see the remmina icon on the message bar. Or install this extension to have full access to a remmina appindicator icon: Appindicator Support Gnome Shell Extension
• XFCE and other desktop without appindicator support, will never show you the system tray icon if you are executing remmina from its compilation direcotry (~/remmina_devel/Remmina) because it contains a directory named remmina. See Bug #1363277 on launchpad

Uninstall everything

1. Remove the devel directory

rm -rf ~/remmina_devel/

2. Remove the binary directory

sudo rm -rf /opt/remmina_devel/

3. Cleanup symlinks and dynamic loader

sudo rm /etc/ld.so.conf.d/freerdp_devel.conf /usr/local/bin/remmina /usr/local/bin/xfreerdp
sudo ldconfig