Rdesktop

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Rdesktop
started by: kman

Posted by kman on Feb. 06 2004,08:06

DSL Rocks !

Was wondering how we can upgrade the rdesktop from version 1.2.0 to 1.3.1. Have tried using some rpm versions but it complained about missing libraries.

1.3.1 has 16bit support which makes a big diff

Posted by Yann on Feb. 18 2004,02:19

I agree

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 18 2004,20:23

Yes...then DSL could be real admin of win2003 servers in the company that uses them :laugh:

Posted by shenan on May 26 2006,15:26

The one-and-only thing that bothers me, is the fact that i can't just press the enter key to connect. I have to type in the address/ip -a 16 etc, and then click on a button to connect. Please please please allow the enter key! :-)

Posted by cbagger01 on May 27 2006,18:01

I agree that rdesktop should be upgraded for a newer version of DSL, assuming

1) The size doesn't increase dramatically
2) The new version has important functionality that is missing from the existing version.

In the meantime, you could build a MyDSL extension for rdesktop 1.4

Boot from livecd
Enable APT
Change /etc/apt/sources.list to point to "stable" instead of "oldstable"
apt-get update
apt-get install rdesktop
Run the deb2dsl script to make a new DSL extenion.

Or you can download the file directly from:

< http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian....386.deb >

and install via:

sudo su
dpkg -i rdesktop_1.4.0-2_i386.deb