Missing extensions in 5.0

[fuegos]

Hi guys,

I need a bit of an advice as two essential extensions are now missing:

rdesktop
xf86-video-openchrome

Were they replaced with something else or simply discontinued?

Many thanks...

[Juanito]

I don't know anything about rdesktop, but did you try the version from the tc-4.x repo with tc-5.x?

xf86-video-openchrome needs to be compiled, I'll try to get around to it in the next couple of days...

[fuegos]

I don't know anything about rdesktop, but did you try the version from the tc-4.x repo with tc-5.x?

I did not... To be honest don't have a clue how to load extensions from previous release. Could you please help a bit?

rdesktop allows Linux to connect to other computers via RDP. Is there any other similar app available in 5.0? I'm pretty sure there were another two apps in previous releases but I could not find them working as good as rdesktop...

[Juanito]

If you've just upgraded a tc-4.x install to tc-5.x then you might still have tc-4.x extensions on your device.

If not, you can download using:

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$ wget -c http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/rdesktop.tcz
..and repeat for rdesktop.tcz.dep, pcsc-lite.tcz, pcsc-lite.tcz.dep and libao.tcz

[Juanito]

xf86-video-openchrome needs to be compiled, I'll try to get around to it in the next couple of days...

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[fuegos]

Thanks for adding the video drivers! Could you please also add rdesktop as i can't get it working by downloading the files manually Many thanks!

[Juanito]

..but if rdesktop doesn't work by downloading the files manually, that would tend to indicate that it doesn't work in tc-5.x?

[fuegos]

Well... I get File not found error message when try to run rdesktop... It looks like some files or entries are missing... without working RDP client i have got no use for TinyCore Please help!

[Juanito]

Can you confirm that the following extensions are loaded:

rdesktop, openssl-1.0.0, libao, pcsc-lite, libusb

Does the pcscd daemon need to be started? What rdesktop command are you using?

[fuegos]

I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with manual loading of extensions or restarting daemons. The only thing i have been doing in the past (and it was working perfectly) was using tce-load -wi <extension name>

I have loaded all advised modules using wget -c http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/<module name>

Unfortunately non of them shows in /usr/ocal/tce.installed

I can find them in /mnt/sda1/tce/optional either (all extensions installed by using tce-load are shown in both locations

The syntax i use for launching rdesktop is:

rdesktop <computer name>

error message is:

sh: rdesktop: not found

Could you please compile latest available version of the rdesktop so i can try it and report any potential problems?

Any other RDP tools are highly desireable as well as i have here 70 users happy to test whatever i throw them

[Juanito]

"wget -c http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/<module name>" doesn't load the module, it just downloads it to the current directory - after that you need "tce-load -i <module name>" from the same directory.

[fuegos]

You see how dumb I am... lol

It works fine now

Is there any chance you could possibly try compiling latest 1.8.0 version? Cheers.

[Juanito]

rdesktop, pcsc-lite and libao copied over

[fuegos]

Thank you kind sir.

Do you have in plans updating rdesktop to the latest version? That might resolve sudden disconnection issues which are occurring from time to time...

As far as i reach my memory FreeRDP was also quite promising but version avaialble in 4.x had too many bugs and i simply gave up using it - latest one could be much better...

Thanks again!

[Juanito]

You'll need to pm the rdesktop maintainers to request an update