How to Compile and Install Remmina From GIT Repository for Ubuntu (KDE)?

Question

Gentlemen,

I would like to compile a version of Remmina directly from the GIT repository, because I need to apply a patch to fix a problem.

With the command sequence below I can compile it and install it, but the application not recognizing the RDP plugin ("Protocol plugin RDP is not installed.").

My distribution is the Linux Mint KDE 16 (Ubuntu based).

Can anyone help me with this?

sudo su

apt-get install git
apt-get -y install cmake

git clone https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.git
cd FreeRDP
mkdir build

cmake --build=build .
make
make install

git clone https://gist.github.com/5214302.git
git clone https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina.git
cd Remmina
patch -p1 < '/home/brlight/5214302/0001-Don-t-seg-fault-if-no-perms-to-read-.remmina-files-o.patch'
apt-get -y install libgtk-3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libssh-dev libvte-2.90-dev libxkbfile-dev libfreerdp-dev libtelepathy-glib-dev libjpeg-dev libgnutls-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libavahi-ui-gtk3-dev libvncserver-dev libappindicator3-dev intltool
mkdir build

cmake --build=build .
make
make install

Solution

The Remmina developers are publishing a snap of remmina, and also publish nightly builds to the edge channel of the snap store. So if you want to track git master, you no longer have to compile from source.

Installing Remmina on Ubuntu or Linux Mint

You can install the Remmina snap on Ubuntu 14.04 or newer and Linux Mint 17.x or newer.

sudo apt install snapd sudp snap install remmina

Getting edge builds of Remmina

Once you have the snap of Remmina installed you can switch to the edge channel to subscribe to the nighlty builds.

sudo snap refresh remmina --edge

Should you ever want to switch back to the stable release you can use the same snap refresh command above and simply change --edge for --stable.

Comments

[MariusMatutiae]

Please post the exact error messages you are getting.

[Eduardo Lucio]

Marius, the output is huge! =/