Remmina: The GTK+ Remote Desktop Client

Initially developed by Vic Lee

Description

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 consistant user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH are supported.

Remmina is released in separated source packages:

• "remmina", the main GTK+ application
• "remmina-plugins", a set of plugins

Remmina is free and open-source software, released under GNU GPL license.

Installation

Binary distributions

Usually remmina is included in your linux distribution or in an external repository. Do not ask for distribution packages or precompiled binaries here. This is a development site.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu ppa:remmina-ppa-team/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 libfreerdp-plugins-standard

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

From the source code

Follow the following guides:

• How to compile "next" branch on Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10: Compile-on-Ubuntu-14.04-and-14.10
• How to compile "next" branch on Fedora 20: Compile-on-Fedora-20
• For Debian 7.6 you can use the Ubuntu guide, but you must disable SSH with -DWITH_LIBSSH=OFF when executing cmake. libssh provided with debian 7 (v 5.4) is older than the needed version 6.x.

Usage