Bring back GTK+ Remote Desktop Client on CentOS 6.2 to the world

Hello every body. How are you today?

Are you ok? I hope so

Are you happy? I hope so

In this post, I will show you the tip to bring back the nice Gtk+ Remote Desktop Client to CentOS 6.2. As we known, in previous version, we have an friendly GNOME Remote Desktop Client that named gnome-rdc or grdc that provide accessibility to connect to various type of systems. On CentOS 6.2, there is only one default RDC (remote desktop client) that based on KDE libraries. It's make me unhappy :)

I've search and find the old friend RDC that was renamed to Remmina Remote Desktop Client. The current version of Remmina is 0.9.x, you can found it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/remmina/files/



First step, download the source codes of Remmina, in this post, I use the 0.9.2 version to compile.

Second step, install the prerequisite packages:

• libssh-devel


• avahi-ui-devel


• vte-devel


• unique-devel


• freerdp-devel (just use version 0.8.2  to success compiling)


• rdesktop


• libjpeg-devel


• libxkbfile-devel

Some packages can be found on EPEL repository (ref: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories) . Note that, on EPEL repo, we have 1.x version of freerdp, so that we cannot build remmina-plugins because error referencing problems. And here is my installed required packages:

[root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -qa | egrep "(libssh|avahi-ui|vte|unique|freerdp|rdesktop|libjpeg|libxkbfile)-devel"
libssh-devel-0.5.0-1.el6.rf.i686
vte-devel-0.25.1-7.el6.i686
libxkbfile-devel-1.0.6-1.1.el6.i686
freerdp-devel-0.8.2-1.el6.i686
avahi-ui-devel-0.6.25-11.el6.i686
libjpeg-devel-6b-46.el6.i686
unique-devel-1.1.4-2.el6.i686


Final step, after complete requisite packages, we will compile and install Remmina and it's plugins from source codes with:
$compile #==> check result clearly to ensure there is no error found.
#make&& make install

After all, let's get to work with our Remmina RDC :)

Have fun!