Installing Remmina from Source on Ubuntu

Installing Remmina (RDP, SSH, VNC and NX Client with tabs!) from Source on Ubuntu


Remmina rocks. One window with tabs for all your RDP, VNC, SSH and NX connections is awesome!

Here are some (very) brief instructions on getting it installed on Ubuntu Lucid:

Install Deps:

sudo aptitude install libpanelappletmm-2.6-dev libtelepathy-glib-dev build-essential autoconf automake libtool libssl-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libasound2-dev intltool libgtk2.0-dev libgcrypt-dev libssh-dev libvte-dev libunique-dev libavahi-ui-dev libtool libgnutls-dev libgnutls-dev libxkbfile1 libxkbfile-dev


Get Remmina:

svn co https://remmina.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/remmina/ remmina

Install Remmina:

cd remmina/trunk/remmina
export RDP_LIBS=/usr/local/bin
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install the Gnome Applet:

cd ../remmina-gnome/
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install the plugins:

cd ../remmina-plugins
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Start Remmina:

remmina &




Download the freeRDP support:
git clone git://freerdp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/freerdp/freerdp.git freerdp
Compile FreeRDP:
cd freerdp
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install