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Install Remmina Remote Desktop Client For Linux Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: Ubuntu

Remmina remote desktop client for Linux Ubuntu. Learn how to use Remmina remote desktop client for remote desktop sharing in Ubuntu Linux Systems.

Useful Remmina Features

  • Remember last view mode for each connection
  • Double-click configuration
  • Scale quality
  • Auto scroll step size
  • Maximal amount of recent items
  • Keystrokes
  • Screenshot folder
  • Screenshot filename
  • Prevent screenshots from entering clipboard
  • Configure resolutions
  • Send periodic usage statistics to Remmina developers (opt-In)
  • Tabs configuration
  • Toolbar visibility
  • Default view mode
  • Fullscreen behaviour configuration
  • Search bar in the main window
  • Tray icon
  • Dark tray icon
  • Host key configuration
    • Toggle fullscreen mode
    • Auto-fit window
    • Switch tab pages
    • Toggle scaled mode
    • Grab keyboard
    • Minimize window
    • Disconnect
    • Show / hide toolbar
    • Screenshot
    • View-only mode
  • SSH tunnel local port
  • Parse ~/.ssh/config
  • SSH log level
  • Terminal font
  • Scrollback lines
  • Deafult colour Scheme

Installing Remmina on Debian or Ubuntu Using APT

Users can install Remmina from the default APT repository of Debian or Ubuntu Systems. Before you begin installing, remove the existing version of Remmina if it’s already installed using the following command:

sudo apt --purge remove remmina remmina-plugin-*

To begin a fresh installation, open terminal and execute the following command:

sudo apt install remmina remmina-plugin-*

To install and add the Remmina Stable PPA (Recommended)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install remmina remmina-plugin-*

To install and add the Remmina Daily Build PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next-daily -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install remmina remmina-plugin-*

Once the installation is complete, you locate and launch it from the application menu.

Installing Remmina via Flatpak

To install Remmina via Flatpak, make sure to install Flatpak on your Linux system by running the following command:

On Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems, you can use the following set of commands

sudo apt install flatpak

Then add the Remmina Flathub repository to your system and run the following command to install the latest version of Remmina :

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform
flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264
flatpak install --user flathub org.remmina.Remmina
flatpak run --user org.remmina.Remmina

If you use SSH agent

flatpak run –filesystem=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK –env=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK org.remmina.Remmina

NOTE: Flatpak stores data for installed applications (the XDG config/data folders) under $HOME/.var If you have previously installed Remmina with another package manager, you will have to transfer what was under $HOME/.config/remmina and $HOME/.local/share/remmina under, respectively ~/.var/app/org.remmina.Remmina/config/remmina and ~/.var/app/org.remmina.Remmina/data/remmina