I notice while trying to install this that there was many bumps in the road to get there so i’ll save you guys sometime by maybe making it easier:
Before installing Winboat we have to install Docker engine so there is how:
sudo apt install curl
Add Docker’s official GPG key:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
Add the repository to Apt sources in terminal:
echo
“deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu
$(. /etc/os-release && echo “${UBUNTU_CODENAME:-$VERSION_CODENAME}”) stable” |
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
sudo systemctl status docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo docker run hello-world
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
We need to install Freerdp as flatpak because the repo version is to old so incase you don’t have flatpak enabled or installed run this first:
sudo apt install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
this is Optional but If your on Plasma:
sudo apt install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
or Gnome:
sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
so now to let’s install freerdp:
flatpak install flathub com.freerdp.FreeRDP
or look in discover or gnome-software for freerdp make sure it’s the flatpak version
Now let’s go download Winboat:
Download in the latest release the .deb version and then from your Download folder either double click it to install from package manager or open terminal in the Download folder and run:
sudo dpkg -i winboat-0.8.7-amd64.deb
and that’s it you might need to reboot i did but after launch Winboat and follow the setup and enjoy hope this helped.
Here is my video if needed:
https://youtu.be/lT6gXeI2NwA