tar is much friendlier not, but ...

[Matt Alexander]

Make sure you're root and type:

make install

It should put it in /usr/local/bin/rdesktop  (I think)

Then you can type:

rdesktop 1.2.3.4


On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, George Gambill wrote:

> Thank you all very very much for all the responces.  It worked.
>
> FYI,
> Copied (Win 2000)a fresh rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz to a DOS floppy
>
> On Linux (as root), mounted the floppy (mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
> /mnt/floppydos)
>
> Using the GUI (low comfort zone with cp), I coppied (copy and paste) the
> file to /tmp/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> At the command line (in /tmp/rdesktop/), issued the command: tar -xzvf
> rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> tar did a lot of good stuff very quickly.
>
> Found a sub directory (of /tmp/rdesktop/)    drwx------ rdesktop-1.1.0
>
> Changed (cd) to /tmp/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.1.0
>
> Found a lot of good stuff including a file: Makefile
>
> Issued the command: make
>
> A lot more good stuff took place all be it not as fast as the earlier tar
> command.
>
> Now the command "ls -l | more" showes a lot of files and a directory crypto
> (drwx------)
>
> Among the files are:
>    -rwxr-xr-a   1 root     root   (skip the size)  rdesktop    ("rdesktop"
> in green)
>    -rw-------     1 1881   1881  (skip the size)  rdesktop.c
>    -rw-------     1 1881   1881  (skip the size)  rdesktop.h
>    -rw-r--r--     1 1881   1881  (skip the size)  rdesktop.o
>
> Now the new opportunity (we never have problems, only opportunities)
>
> When I enter the command "rdesktop xxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is the name of
> the Windows 2000 Terminal Server, I get:
>
> -bash: rdesktop: command not found
>
> I get the same resultes without xxxxxxxx which makes sense
>
> FWIW I can ping the Terminal Server by name (xxxxxxxx) and it does respond
> well.
>
> I read the -rwxr-xr-x on rdesktop  (in green) as being executable.
>
> Where am I going wrong?
>
> Thanking you all in advance.
>
> George
>
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