Mac Users and Remmina (spice) which google says doesn't exist, but it does

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So, you are using Mac and you need a Spice client as the web version has various issues. Mostly Google either says homebrew has it, or, it doesn’t exist for Mac. But it does, and is native for Apple Silicon. Here’s how:

  1. Install nix via Setting up Nix on macOS but really just the one line, the rest is just info for options:
curl \
  --proto '=https' \
  --tlsv1.2 \
  -sSf \
  -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix \
  | sh -s -- install
  1. Now that it is installed, let’s build Remmina. Do this:
nix profile add nixpkgs#qownnotes
  1. Now let’s see where it built:

nix profile list

Note the line that says something like:

Store paths: /nix/store/3lx64xcj9xpcrckl51d9g5ij03q8jjf4-remmina-1.4.40

Now use finder to browse to that folder, and make an alias of the app named “remmina” found underneath that folder in bin, and move the new alias to your application folder (rename to remove the alias part of the name if you wish so it’s just called remmina).

Done. You have a Apple Silicon version of remmina for use as a spice client to manager your VMs. Remmina also does rdp, vnc, sftp, ssh and is quite fast.

I’m not a nix expert as I only use it to build a few Apple Silicon versions of apps that homebrew doesn’t have. The only other things I build with it are mkvtoolnix and qownnotes.

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