[ug-bosug] Is there rdesktop for OpenSolaris?

[Eric Boutilier]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> Is the "rdesktop" application available for OpenSolaris?
> Or is there any other way to connect to a windows machine.
>
> I know I could setup Cygwin+SSH on a windows box, but i need to
> control/access a windows desktop at work.
> And for that I use rdesktop, which works like a charm.

A while back I initiated support for rdesktop in the SFE (aka
pkgbuild, aka pkgbase) OpenSolaris repository.

I'm working on a pkgbuild/pkgbase FAQ (with Laca's help). It's
not quite official yet, and it still needs some work, but
anyway, here's the URL:
     http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkgbase/faq/

And here's the actual spec file for rdesktop:
     http://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/SFErdesktop.spec

And for additional information about the pkgbuild project, see:
     http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/
     http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/
     http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkgbase-dev/

Alternatively, I also highly recommend PMPKG. Like pkgbuild,
it's a Solaris/OpenSolaris recipe-based "F/OSS package builder"
(and it includes rdesktop too):
     http://freshmeat.net/projects/pmpkg/

Last but not least, there's an "OpenSolaris Ports" (aka build
recipes) consolidated reference you might find useful:
     http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference
It's a look-up reference that lets you quickly find out if any
of the OpenSolaris "build-recipe" projects support a given
package. E.g, for rdesktop:
     http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference#rdesktop

Eric