ubuntu 6.0.6 - can't get rdesktop 1.5 installed

[JBrianClark]

Hey All,

I want to use ubuntu as a complete desktop replacement; however I am unable to do this without the newest rdesktop client. I can not get it installed for the life of me.

It keeps telling me it can't find my openssl directory even though the package manager states that openssl is installed.

I read through a few posts I found on google and it seems that people there got it installed by installing libssl-dev.. however when I try to install libssl-dev it tells me that its missing zlib1g-dev which is not installable.

I have tried to get zlib1g-dev installed every which way but its just not working and I am just about fed up.

error msgs:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libssl-dev: Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
brian@brian-laptop:~/temp$

and trying an apt-get install zlib1g-dev

Package zlib1g-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package zlib1g-dev has no installation candidate
brian@brian-laptop:/$

any help would be appreciated.

 

[Robor]

Not sure what's wrong there. I do an 'apt-get install zlib1g-dev' and it says it's already installed and is the newest version.

Edit: rdesktop is installed on mine as well. What happens if you do an 'apt-get install rdesktop' ?? I don't remember installing it so it must've been done by 'Automatix'.

 

[JBrianClark]

when installing wine (I had to edit the repository settings to add one for wine) I think I may have added something I wasn't suppose to so I went back and unchecked what I thought I added I may have unchecked the wrong one. If you open up your package manager and go to the repository list what repositories do you have checked? I can compare those against mine and see if they are different, cause its sure not working on mine and since I just installed it -- its pretty much base except for some dev tools I installed.

 

[Robor]

This is my sources.list

I have added a bunch of repos to install things like Automatix, Enlightenment, WINE, etc.

Edit: (DISCLAIMER) I should mention that I'm very far from an expert and I can't say for sure if it's safe to enable all of those repos on your system... 😉

 

[silverpig]

99% sure you just have to add the proper repos.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: silverpig
99% sure you just have to add the proper repos.

IIRC there's a few repos that are disabled (commented out with a '#') by default. Try editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, enable the commented out repos, do an 'apt-get update' and try a 'apt-get install rdesktop' again.

 

[nweaver]

you need the official dapper repos, and enable univers and multiverse


rdesktop is installed by default on dapper....have you tried to use it?

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: nweaver
you need the official dapper repos, and enable univers and multiverse


rdesktop is installed by default on dapper....have you tried to use it?

Ah, so it wasn't Automatix that put it on mine. Do you know the syntax offhand? I tried it and no matter what I tried I kept getting the 'help' feedback in response.

 

[drag]

Did you look at the man file?
man rdesktop
Also there is probably some docs in /usr/share/doc/rdesktop or whatever the package name is (since it's probably a rebadged Debian package)

I've only used it once or twice, but I don't remember it being much of a problem with me, after the usual trial and error stuff I do with all unix commands.

It seems it would be just:
rdesktop yourmachine.yourdomain.net
(without specifing username and passwords and such it should just get that regular nt login window, right?)

or it's ip address or whatever.

Also you can specify the window size and color depths and such. I specified my desktop resolution minus the size of my toolbar so that it fit 'maximized', pretty much.

If your going to use it a lot with different machines and such there is a Gnome-ised front end for it calld grdesktop, also kde has a gui for it for their desktop.

 

[Robor]

Thanks drag... I'm going to check that out tomorrow when I'm back at work.