Quick and dirty guide for compiling remmina on ubuntu 16.04

These are instructions for people or software developers who want to contribute to the latest version of Remmina on Ubuntu 16.04.

If you are an end user and you want to install the latest version of remmina, please use the "Remmina Team Ubuntu PPA - next branch", as explained on the homepage of the wiki.

By following these instructions, you will get 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: Mar 30 2016.
Apr 19 2016: added apt-get remove for libwinpr and other packages
Jan 08 2018: added libsoup2.4-dev libjson-glib-dev to dependencies

1. Install all packages required to build freerdp and remmina:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core cmake libssl-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev \
  libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxv-dev libxkbfile-dev libasound2-dev libcups2-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev \
  libxrandr-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev \
  libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libxi-dev libavutil-dev \
  libavcodec-dev libxtst-dev libgtk-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libssh-dev libpulse-dev \
  libvte-2.91-dev libxkbfile-dev libtelepathy-glib-dev libjpeg-dev \
  libgnutls-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libavahi-ui-gtk3-dev libvncserver-dev \
  libappindicator3-dev intltool libsecret-1-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libsystemd-dev \
  libsoup2.4-dev libjson-glib-dev libavresample-dev

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

sudo apt-get --purge remove freerdp-x11 \
 remmina remmina-common remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-vnc remmina-plugin-gnome \
 remmina-plugin-nx remmina-plugin-telepathy remmina-plugin-xdmcp
sudo apt-get --purge remove libfreerdp-dev libfreerdp-plugins-standard libfreerdp1 \
 libfreerdp-utils1.1 libfreerdp-primitives1.1 libfreerdp-locale1.1 \
 libfreerdp-gdi1.1 libfreerdp-crypto1.1 libfreerdp-core1.1 libfreerdp-common1.1.0 \
 libfreerdp-codec1.1 libfreerdp-client1.1 libfreerdp-cache1.1
sudo apt-get --purge remove \
  libfreerdp-rail1.1 libwinpr-asn1-0.1 libwinpr-bcrypt0.1 libwinpr-credentials0.1 libwinpr-credui0.1 \
  libwinpr-crt0.1 libwinpr-crypto0.1 libwinpr-dev libwinpr-dsparse0.1 libwinpr-environment0.1 \
  libwinpr-error0.1 libwinpr-file0.1 libwinpr-handle0.1 libwinpr-heap0.1 libwinpr-input0.1 \
  libwinpr-interlocked0.1 libwinpr-io0.1 libwinpr-library0.1 libwinpr-path0.1 libwinpr-pipe0.1 \
  libwinpr-pool0.1 libwinpr-registry0.1 libwinpr-rpc0.1 libwinpr-sspi0.1 libwinpr-sspicli0.1 \
  libwinpr-synch0.1 libwinpr-sysinfo0.1 libwinpr-thread0.1 libwinpr-timezone0.1 libwinpr-utils0.1 \
  libwinpr-winhttp0.1 libwinpr-winsock0.1

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_CUPS=on -DWITH_WAYLAND=off -DWITH_PULSE=on -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 Ubuntu x64:

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

sudo ldconfig

8. Create a symbolik link to the 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://gitlab.com/Remmina/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. Create a symbolik link to the the executable

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

14. Run remmina

remmina

Please note that icons and launcher files are not installed, so don't search for remmina using Unity Dash.

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