Error while installing rdesktop rpm in Opensuse 10.3

kumar27siva · September 22, 2010, 11:07am

Hi All,

I’m newbie to opensuse. I want to install rdesktop to connect windows system from opensuse linux system.
I have downloaded rdesktop rpm from net and installed with YAST.
Error occured, the error states that “rdesktop cannot be install due to missing dependency”.
Now what to do to install rdesktop…?
Is there any way other than rdesktop to connect windows system from opensuse?
Kindly provide me the solution.

Thanks in advance

hcvv · September 22, 2010, 11:42am

As openSUSE 10.3 is not supported (for allready sometime) I am not amazed that the repos for it are gone. Thus it will be a bit difficult to find everything you need.

Why are you not using one ogf the supported levels (newest is 11.3)?

EDIT: And before I forget: WELCOME to these forums.

martin_helm · September 22, 2010, 11:54am

Gon’t install rpm’s as long as this is not absolutely needed.

Open yast -> software and search for rdesktop and tick it for installation
or open a terminal and type


sudo zypper in rdesktop

kumar27siva · September 22, 2010, 12:08pm

@ hcvv

Thanks for your info. But i need to know for 10.3 .
Is it hard to install rdesktop for opensuse 10.3?

hcvv · September 22, 2010, 12:23pm

@martin_helm: did you miss that this is about openSUSE10.3? When not, can you give him the URLs for the repos he needs?

@kumar27siva
It is vey easy to install on a supported level. Just a few clicks. Even easier because on my 11.2 it is installed by default.
Are you sure it is not allready on your system? Check with YaST > Soiftware > Software management, type rdesktop in the search field and see what is shown.

kumar27siva · September 22, 2010, 12:32pm

@martin_helm
I tried as you given but it gives “rdesktop package not available”.

@hcvv
rdesktop is not there in the system.
when i search it shows “Nothing found”.

hcvv · September 22, 2010, 1:05pm

I suppose that there is also a message that says which dependancy/ies is/are missing. You could of course try to find rpms for them on the net, but it will allways be the question if they fit together and fit with openSUSE 10.3.

Not much people here will even have a 10.3 installed to go with you through the motions (if that is possible at all).

In fact I am afraid that not going to a supported version will block you from a solution. But you could wait for another 24 or 48 hours to see if someone (who might be asleepp at this moment ) will come with something usefull.

kumar27siva · September 22, 2010, 1:15pm

@ hcvv
Thanks let me wait and see…
in the mean time i will try to find rpms for missing dependcies.

Pilgervater · September 22, 2010, 1:18pm

It will be very hard because your openSUSE 10.3 is EOL (End of Life)

Pilgervater · September 22, 2010, 1:27pm

Hey good news shiva. I found Installationrepositories for you EOL SuSE.
Do the following and you will become happy and get rdesktop:

su

zypper addrepo http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/repo/oss/

zypper addrepo http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/

zypper refresh

zypper install rdesktop

hcvv · September 22, 2010, 1:44pm

That is very good news, thanks to Pilgervater. It will make also all the original 10.3 software vailable to you if you want any more.

But I would encourage you to plan an upgrade to 11.3. There are no updates, thus no secirity updates to openSUSE 10.3 allready for a long time. In the end you will get stuck somewhere at an inconvenient moment, thus better upgrade at leisure.

martin_helm · September 22, 2010, 1:45pm

hcvv wrote:

>
> @martin_helm: did you miss that this is about openSUSE10.3? When not,
> can you give him the URLs for the repos he needs?
>
I thought since the OP uses 10.3 that the discontinued repos are known by
him/her

ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/10.3/oss
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/10.3/non-oss

There are also other mirrors which still have these old repos.

kumar27siva · September 22, 2010, 2:33pm

@ Pilgervater

Thanks very much.
First i tried the code but some error came, later some how using your code, I have installed rdesktop.

Thanks a lot for all of you, helping me to solve this problem…

martin_helm · September 22, 2010, 2:24pm

Martin Helm wrote:

> hcvv wrote:
>
>>
>> @martin_helm: did you miss that this is about openSUSE10.3? When not,
>> can you give him the URLs for the repos he needs?
>>
> I thought since the OP uses 10.3 that the discontinued repos are known by
> him/her
>
> ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/10.3/oss
> ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/10.3/non-oss
>
> There are also other mirrors which still have these old repos.
>
>
Sorry these does no longer exist (existed a few weeks ago when someone else
asked for it) go with that

http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/discontinued/update/10.3/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.3/repo/

Last link contains the oss and non-oss repositories, these still work.