Information about the package, freerdp, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freerdp package is designed for, Remote Desktop Protocol client.
Package Name:
freerdp
Summary:
Remote Desktop Protocol client
Description:
The xfreerdp Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client from the FreeRDP project. xfreerdp can connect to RDP servers such as Microsoft Windows machines, xrdp and VirtualBox.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.2
Release:
5.el6
Size:
55 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the freerdp package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install freerdp
This command will install freerdp on the server.
yum remove freerdp
This command will un-install freerdp on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freerdp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove freerdp
This command will un-install freerdp on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freerdp when using the -y flag.
yum update freerdp
This command will update freerdp to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freerdp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update freerdp
This command will update freerdp to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freerdp when using the -y flag.
yum info freerdp
This command will show you core information about the freerdp package.
yum deplist freerdp
This command will show you the dependencies for freerdp. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update freerdp
This command will check if there is an update waiting on freerdp. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.