What is the easiest approach to get freeRDP installed onto Amazon Linux?

You can follow below steps to compile freeRDP

  git clone git://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP.git
  cd FreeRDP

Build:

  make

Install:

  sudo make install

Now create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/freerdp.conf and add the following line to it:

  /usr/local/lib/freerdp

For a 64-bit rhel based OS add: /usr/local/lib64/freerdp

Depending on your OS/distribution, you may also need to add this line:

 /usr/local/lib

Run ldconfig. You should now have xfreerdp installed in /usr/local/bin:

  which xfreerdp
 /usr/local/bin/xfreerdp

Plugins are installed in /usr/local/lib/freerdp:

 /usr/local/lib/freerdp$ ls

cliprdr.so disk.so drdynvc.so printer.so rail.so rdpdbg.so rdpdr.so rdpsnd_alsa.so rdpsnd.so keymaps are installed in /usr/local/share/freerdp:

  /usr/local/share/freerdp$ ls keymaps/

aliases ataritt empty fujitsu ibm macosx sony xfree86 xkb.pl amiga digital_vndr evdev hp macintosh sgi_vndr sun xfree98 After launching FreeRDP at least once, ~/.freerdp will be created to store known hosts:

  ~/.freerdp$ ls

cacert known_hosts