54 thoughts on “xRDP – Easy install xRDP on Ubuntu 20.04,22.04,23.XX (Script Version 1.4.8)”

1. Hello,

   I’m getting this error on Ubuntu 20.04 after running with the -r option, rebooting, then running with the -c option.

   configure: error: Package requirements (xrdp >= 0.9.16) were not met:

   No package ‘xrdp’ found

   Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
   installed software in a non-standard prefix.

   Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XRDP_CFLAGS
   and XRDP_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
   See the pkg-config man page for more details.
   make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

2. Hitting a brick wall with xrdp showing login failure from a W11 RDP client. Latest script ran OK without issue and xrdp services are up. Remain logged out of the account as suggested however same issue . Any assistance would be appreciated.

3. @Ldogg123,

   Thank you for visiting our blog and providing valuable feedback. So, we have not checked this one yet in our lab but we would guess that one of the pre-requisites does not get installed. We have seen it happening time to time. Even do, the library is defined in the script, the installation does not seem to go through…
   To try to identify the issue, can you try to get full output log when running the script. You can try to use this command, it should normally create a log file… (not sure, never tried it 🙂 )

   xrdp-installer-1.4.x.sh -c |& tee -a installxrdp.log

   We can then have a look at it and see what’s causing the issue

   waiting for your feedback
   Till next time
   See ya

4. @PKax,

   Thank you for visiting our blog and sharing your experience. So, we need a little bit more information here…. Which Ubuntu version are you running (22.04, 23.xx…), Which Desktop interface are your running ?
   can you check the logs /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log and /var/log/xrdp.log
   Login failed could be because of wrong password…Can you check that the password is correct and that the keyboard layout is also correct. User the username field to type in your password and assess if keyboard layout is ok
   Hope this help

   Waiting for your feedback
   Till next time
   See ya

5. Not working with LMDE6 (which is based on debian 12) :

   Your system is not running on a support version !

   $ uname -a
   Linux lmde1 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1 (2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

6. @Snowy,

   Thank you for visiting our blog and providing feedback. Indeed, LMDE is not supported by the current version of the script. Please read the post and information provided. the script supports
   Ubuntu 20.04.x
   Ubuntu 22.04.x
   Ubuntu 23.04.x
   Ubuntu 23.10.x
   Debian 10
   Debian 11 (only if you select custom mode installation !!!)
   Debian 12
   Kubuntu (20.04 and later)
   Ubuntu Budgie (20.04 and later)
   Ubuntu Mate (20.04 and later)
   Xubuntu (20.04 and later)
   Lubuntu (20.04 and later)
   Linux Mint (Experimental at this stage)
   Pop!_OS 22.04

   LMDE is not listed so it means not supported yet.. We are looking into adding this Distribution as supported one… probably in version 1.4.9 or 1.5

   Till next time
   See ya

7. @Griffon

   I reinstalled and have it working again..thanks.

8. @Pkax;

   Ah good to hear… Thank you for providing feedback… Now, you can enjoy your xRDP software solution 🙂

   Till next time
   See ya

9. @Griffon

   I was actually able to figure it out, somehow I missed the checkinstall error stating permission denied when trying to execute installscript.sh inside /var/tmp. I had /var/tmp mounted with noexec, so once I remounted with exec the script worked flawlessly. Is there a way to make checkinstall use something other than /var/tmp to execute that script?

10. Hey Griffon, you are a legend! I’ve spent hours trying to get sound working on my hyper-v ubuntu instance. Followed lots of other guides and nothing worked until I was directed here. You are doing awesome work for the community, thanks!

11. @Ldogg123,

    Thank you for sharing your findings about this issue… At the moment, do not know how we could do that… need to check if feasible…

    Till next time
    See ya

12. @Andrew,

    Thank you for sharing your feedback. Happy to see that our small contribution can help people around
    Till next time
    See ya

13. This worked on xubuntu 23.04.3 bhyve vm. Much thanks! I notice xrdp-chansrv always has one core at 100% usage?

14. I had tried your script in past on a different system with Ubuntu 20 and it worked very weel. I have setup a new system with Ubuntu 23.04. the Xrdp was working fine until i added GeForce g610 graphics card. After that when i try to connect to rdp it gives this error all the time and exits. I ran your script yesterday but still same problem. Please suggest.

    Connection Log
    connecting to sesman on 127.0.0.1:3350
    sesman connect ok
    sending login info to session manager. Please wait… login successful for user faiza on display 10 started connecting
    connection problem, giving up some problem
    Error connecting to user session

15. hi

    trying to run your script

    got this error, tried to resolve it by inserting what it required, made no dent in fixing, so removed the fi

    xrdp-installer-1.4.8.sh: 171: Syntax error: “(” unexpected (expecting “fi”)
    what can this be?

    im on 23.10 ubuntu amd64

16. @Ansari,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing some feedback.. So the script is not dealing with special video cards and especially nvidia cards… So, there might be additional settings for nvidia cards to make it work with xRDP. You can try to remove the nvidia card drivers and fallback to X.org nouveau drivers (using the gnome search type Additional Drivers). If this is not an option for you, there might be a script available that could be used to configure nvidia cards with xRDP…

    Hope this help
    Till next time

17. @Desmond,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing some feedback. ok, this one is a weird one… So, I have download the script from the internet, unzip it and it run with no error and no complains…. Can you provide either a screenshot of the error so I can see more or less where it fails… Can you provide me the code you see between line 150 and 180 to see which code your system is complaining

    Hope this help
    Till next time
    See ya

18. I couldn’t redirect my webcam from the client to the server, and the videos look so struggle in the remote machine while in an xrdp connection, it looks like I’m without drivers

19. Almost everything worked correctly, only two things didn’t work correctly:
    1) The graph seems a bit frozen and crashing a bit. Impossible to view a video, for example, on the remote computer during the xRDP session
    2) My webcam was not redirected from Windows (Client) to Linux (Server)

20. @Danilo;

    Thank you for your feedback and for visiting our blog. We actually never tried to redirect webcam and not even sure this is supported by the xRDP software.. We could have a look when time permit
    Till next time
    See ya

21. @Griffon
    Thank you so much for this wonderful script! It helps me very much.

    I got the same error running with just the -c option, as in the first post on a fresh 23.10 ubuntu Installation, BUT with ZFS.
    “configure: error: Package requirements (xrdp >= 0.9.16) were not met:

    No package ‘xrdp’ found

    Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
    installed software in a non-standard prefix.

    Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XRDP_CFLAGS (…)”

    Now I made a fresh installation 23.10 ubuntu with LVM and everything worked perfect.

    Perhaps this helps you a little bit.

    Thanks a lot. Greeting from Saarbrücken
    Frank

22. @Frank,

    Thank you for your feedback and for passing by our blog…. Ok, indeed, good information….We will need to double check that and see what could be the problem

    Till next time
    See ya

23. Just completed an installation on a Proxmox deployed Linux Mint 21.2 fresh install. Following the installation instructions I encountered no issues, and it seems to have deployed successfully. I will make a point to post updates if helpful

24. @Joseph,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing feedback. Nice to see that the script is useful and work as expected….
    Thank you for letting us know that this is still valid 🙂

    Till next time
    See ya

25. I’m getting this error when I run ./xrdp-installer-1.4.7.sh on ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS: “Error checking xserver-xorg-core flavour”. Anyone know what that is and how to proceed?

26. @Scott,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing some feedback. The issue seems to be related to the xserver-xorg-core package. The script checks which version of this package is installed (Standard or HWE)…. In your specific case, it seems that the script does not seems to detect any valid xserver-xorg package. Can you check that you run a xserver-xorg-core package on your computer ? is there anything special with your configuration ?

    Since we do not know exactly why the package is not detected, we would recommend you to test first on a virtual machine (trying to mimic your existing configuration) and run the script to see if the same issue pops up..

    Hope this Help
    Till next time
    See ya

27. @desmond ainsworth
    Hi . You must run at “bash” not “sh”.

28. @Vector,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing feedback… Not sure we understand your comment.

    if you open the script, at top of it, we specify /bin/bash/…
    You just need to execute the script in your terminal and you should be good to go….

    Maybe something we are missing here ?

    till next time
    See ya

29. Thank you for the script. I tried it on my Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon (running pipewire 1.0), regardless that it is “experimental”, and I can report complete success. Except I get a seemingly new variation of the “Authentication required to refresh system repositories” pop ups.

    They only pop up twice. Once soon after starting the session and again after ten minutes. I can ignore them, but it would be nice to find their cause and a solution.

    The variation is that it wants to “modify” a system repository, rather than ‘refresh’ them. The Details are:

    Action: org.freedesktop.Flatpak.modify-repo
    Vendor: The Flatpak Project

    I tried adding ‘;org.freedesktop.packagekit.Flatpak.modify-repo’ to the end of ‘/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/46-allow-update-repo.pkla’, but no change.

    There was a worrying line in the output of the script, that may be significant:

    fatal: destination path ‘pipewire-module-xrdp’ already exists and is not an empty directory.

    There is a file: /usr/local/libexec/pipewire-module-xrdp/load_pw_modules.sh

    Thanks again.

30. @John,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing useful insight. We will need to look into this one…we are not regular users of Linux Mint (yet) but we are using it more and more… So will need to check why the popup is showing up… Is the sound redirection worked as expected….? If the file exists,that seems to indicate that you ran already the script… Is this correct ?

    waiting for your feedback
    Stay Tuned
    Till Next time

31. @Griffon,
    Yes correct. First run complained that my pipewire version was too old, so I used a PPA to upgraded it and ran it again. And yes sound redirection worked as expected. Firefox sound worked immediately and I just had to make a manual change to a music player program I use (and wrote). It uses command line pw-link via a Qt ‘qprocess’. Like:
    connectOpts << "qt-jack-play:out_1" << "xrdp-sink:send_FL";

32. @John,

    Thank you for your reply. so, yes, it make sense.. To fix the popup for the flatpak repo update, please try to create an additional pkla file and paste the following content
    
    Step 1 – create pkla file in the proper location

    sudo touch /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/47-allow-update-flatpak.pkla

    Step 2 – Copy/paste this code into the newly created file

    
[Allow Flatpak Repo Update]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.Flatpak.modify-repo
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

    Please provide feedback. If this is work, we will update the xrdp-installer script to include this piece of code
    Thank you for your support

    Till Next time
    See ya

33. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but no change. I also tried rebooting both server and client, to be sure the change would be active.

    Your help is much appreciated, but please don’t spend your time on it. Although I will of course be happy to try anything else you think might fix it.

    Thanks again,
    John.

34. Hello John,

    So, we have quickly looked at it… the problem/issue seems that more flatpak actions might get called…. (update-repo, app-update….)
    Try to update the file with this content

    [Allow Flatpak Repo Update]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.Flatpak.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

    We have tried this piece of code and seems to work so far… we will keep monitoring this one.
    Till next time
    See ya

35. That has fixed it. Well done and thank you.
    Best regards,
    John.

36. Thanks a milion 🙂 finally something that really works!
    Used it with Linux Mint on a virtualbox running on LinuxMint as well (Virginia v21.3)
    using a Windows laptop, an iPad and a tablet as a client. Top!

    2 notes:
    a) If you exit the RDP session and log on locally, the sound is still on xrdp and
    cannot be set locally (reboot required)
    b) if you use Wine on the Mint machine client (as I do) the wine installation is destroyed and
    needs a re-install. Just saying.

    Thanks again 🙂 For ever great full, see ya

37. Hi! I installed xrdb with sound support following the instructions (using gnome). It works ok, but I notice a high sound delay (10 seconds). It does not seem a network issue because the environment works smoothly and when I play a video, audio is just starting after some time. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

38. Recently updated xrdp/xorgrdp ,and now USB hard drives on the remote machine are now inaccessible when connected via RDP, nothing will mount, and gives the error of “operation is already pending” when I try to mount them. How do I fix this, it’s driving me nuts, 6 hours of research and work, and absolutely nothing works.

39. @John;

    Thank you for your feedback… we will update the xrdp-installer script and try to append this information..

    Till next time
    See ya

40. @Robert,
    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing some feedback. You are providing good info here…

    – we were not aware of the possible issue with wine. We might want to add a check in the script.. if Wine is installed, user will need to re-install it…
    – we will check if we can do something about the sound.. We tried this action and we didn’t really noticed the issue…. we will double check on this one

    Till next time
    See ya

41. @Fernando,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing some feedback and your user experience. You do not specify which version of Ubuntu/Debian/Linux Mint you are using… We need to know if the system is using Pulseaudio or Pipewire…
    Pulseaudio had some delay issues and some configuration changes could help improving the situation… If Pipewire is installed, it looks really more stable and has better performance, need to dig in the config file to see if some settings can be tweaked

    Till next time
    See ya

42. @Carl,

    Thank you for providing some feedback and visiting our blog. No sure what could be the problem…not sure the update is the problem. Are you sure that the usb stick are still working correctly ? usually, the operation already pending indicates a problem with the hardware. Can you try to plug the usb stick on another computer and see if it mounts. Can you try to mount on the physical machine and see if it mounts.. If it’s not mounting, stick might be the problem….

    Hope this help
    Till next time
    See ya

43. Griffon (and Hiero!):
    Excellent work to you both, you’re a great representation of the Opensource community and demonstration of why it succeeds! Without your continued efforts, my xrdp attempts firstly on Ubuntu and now MX Linux would have been futile!

    I successfully achieved pipewire xrdp audio redirection on MX Linux 23 Fluxbox (MX-23.2_fluxbox_x64 to be specific) in a MX Live boot with Persistence in a Virtual Machine environment. I use KRDC or other RDC client for accessing the MX Live VM system.

    Audio redirection took a couple of iterations. The 1.48 script from the October 26, 2023 “xRDP – Easy install xRDP on Ubuntu 20.04,22.04,23.XX (Script Version 1.4.8)” post by itself didn’t work but I went back to your post “xRDP – Sound Redirection Support for Pipewire Module” from October 14, 2023 and followed the build process with a couple of additional steps to achieve success.

    Additional actions needed:
    sudo apt install autoconf autoconf-archive gnu-standards automake (not sure if gnu standards was really needed but added at apt’s recommendation)

    Then I could successfully complete the usual steps ./bootstrap; ./configure; make; sudo make install

    Restarted, checked for xrdp-sink and xrdp-source.

    Success!!

    Many thanks again! Ko-fi on the way!

44. @Julian,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing feedback.. Always happy to see that the information provided can be useful. thank you for sharing the information about additional packages needed for MX Linux.. If time permit, we will try to add MX Linux ad supported OS. And indeed, thank’s to hiero and all the valuable information and comments he has provided

    Till next time
    See ya

45. Thank you so much for this wonderful xRDP script! It helps me very much.
    I test the script on ubuntu 23.10 it’s working as expected With Audio redirection.
    please publish an update of script to support New release Ubuntu 24.04.

    Many Many Thanks to Team.

46. @Vinod,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and sharing your positive experience.. We are working on updating the script to include support for Ubuntu 24.04 🙂

    Till next time
    See ya

47. ISSUE (Human Error): If anyone is having copy/paste issues and a log black loading screen don’t make the mistake I did and install this over SSH. The installer actually warns you this could have issues. One symptom is in xrdp.log you’ll see this error:

    [WARN ] xrdp_mm_chansrv_connect: connect failed trying again…

    FIX: Uninstall using the the script and log on to the system directly and using old school KVM install the script directly.

48. Hello,

    Many thanks for the script (and the article which explains the difference between the Ubuntu sharing and RDP).

    I downloaded and ran the script, all appeared to install fine, however I had no luck connecting after a reboot. Knowing that RDP uses 3389 by default I checked the firewall status using sudo ufw status and saw that 3389 was nowhere to be seen there. Then it was a simple sudo ufw allow from any to any port 3389 (did a swift reboot to be sure to sure) and all was fine.

    Thanks again!
    – Derek

49. @Mike,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing feedback. Thank you for using the script and providing useful insight information. We will review the script and see if we can improve this part. A new version of the script should be released soon
    Stay tuned
    Till next time
    See ya

50. @Derek,

    Thank you for visiting our blog and providing feedback. Ok interesting that you had to open the firewall port.. Which OS/Distribution are you running ? We might want to add a small check on the script to see if port is indeed up or down
    Till next time
    See ya