gnome-remote-desktop is not installed in a "minimal" Ubuntu install

[Matt Dale]

Ubuntu 21.10 - minimal install on a fresh machine

apt install vino

Open the gnome settings dialog and go to the Sharing tab. I would expect to see the screen sharing slider but it is not there.

Searching around I found a suggestion to use Ubunutu with Xorg but this makes no difference.

This behaviour is also present in 21.04.

I have put gnome-control-center as the package at fault as this is ultimately where I observe the issue but it may be that during the install of vino makes the gnome configuration change and this step is missed.

I have enquired on askubuntu and reddit but have not received a response so decided to report this

gnome-control-center 1:40.0-1ubuntu5 is installed
vino 3.22.0-6ubuntu3

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

vino has been replaced with gnome-remote-desktop.

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/sharing-desktop.html

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. GNOME moved to gnome-remote-desktop for screen sharing, is that package installed?

When you say 'minimal install' do you mean you used ubiquity and ticket the minimal install option?

[Matt Dale (mattdale77)]

Thanks for getting back to me. I have never heard of gnome-remote-desktop before. Installing it cures the issue that I've been having.

Yes, I meant the minimal install from ubiquity.

I would consider this lack of knowledge on my part but I will update the threads on askubuntu and reddit with the solution as I'm sure others will encounter the same.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thanks, we should check the minimal installation since screen sharing should be installed in that case, if it's not that it's an installer bug

[Matt Dale (mattdale77)]

In that case, it's certainly the case that it's not installed in a minimal install. I've come across this more than once.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Actually this bug may be invalid.

'gnome-shell' already recommends package 'gnome-remote-desktop'. If a minimal install omits recommended packages then it won't get installed. All of this seems quite reasonable to me.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

I think these are the dependencies that are arguably too weak, causing remote desktop to not work in minimal installs:

gnome-shell recommends gnome-remote-desktop
pipewire-bin recommends pipewire-media-session

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The removal list is part of the iso and fetched from a vcs, the change to fix is has been pushed in

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu/commit/?id=57a7ec70