rdp:/ urls don't work in Kubuntu default install

[Sergio Rubio]

rdesktop is not included in kubuntu dapper default install so rdp:/ doesn't work.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Sebastien, can tsclient handle these URLs?

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

Noticed that this is still happening in Edgy. I receive an error message: "Could not start rdesktop: make sure redesktop is properly installed"

If I do an apt-get install tsclient I am then able to use rdesktop. Does this mean that something needs to be done to configure rdesktop by default to work better?

[Mitch Golden (mgolden)]

Just ran into this one as well. It works fine once I apt-get install tsclient - no additional configuration is required. I suggest that the Ubuntu package for Krdc should require tsclient. Either that, or the error message should say something about tsclient, not only about rdesktop.

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

I am once again requesting to make krdc install tsclient. Posting on this to the mailing list kubuntu-devel

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Changed package to kdentwork.

This is a packaging "issue" krdc only suggests rdesktop, while tsclient is depending on it. Either we adapt the error message to something more meaningful (i.e. offer to install rdesktop automagically, or at leat tell the user to do so), or we make krdc depend on rdesktop, which is probably the best/easiest solution since rdesktop is in main anyway.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

rdesktop got added to Kubuntu default installation