Install latest version of rdesktop

[Luuk_Prins]

For anyone interested, this is how I managed to install the latest version of rdesktop with all options enabled:
First of all get the latest version from: http://www.rdesktop.org/#download

At the time of writing 1.8.3!

Open a terminal and get to the folder where you downloaded rdesktop.

sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libssl-dev libgssglue-dev libpcsclite-dev
tar zxvf rdesktop-1.8.3.tar.gz 
cd rdesktop-1.8.3
./configure
make
sudo make install

I had to create a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin to make it system wide accessible, but I think that was because I had already installed an old version through apt-get.
Apt-get will install rdesktop but an old version which has problems with the cursor in Windows 7 and up. I was able to fix the cursor problem installing the latest version.

Just wanted to share hope I can help others this way!

[rnijenhu]

Came across this post, had the same problem with win10, and made thankful use of it Rdesktop 1.8.x is available in 15.04 but 15 has no LTS (yet) and breaking my current (14 LTS) is not an option for me. So I did the install on a different location (/opt) and made a link in ~/bin with a slightly different name, now I can choose between the old and new release each time without breaking the system.

cd /tmp
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libssl-dev libgssglue-dev libpcsclite-dev
wget https://github.com/rdesktop/rdesktop/releases/download/v1.8.3/rdesktop-1.8.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf rdesktop-1.8.3.tar.gz  
cd rdesktop-1.8.3 
./configure --prefix=/opt/rdesktop-1.8.3
make 
sudo make install

mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin 
ln -s /opt/rdesktop-1.8.3/bin/rdesktop rdesktop183

[ctav01]

Thanks @rnijenhu, this fixed a problem I was having.

Two small changes: I think there should be a "&&" after the "sudo apt-get update" and I changed the "cd ~/bin" to "cd /usr/bin" so the "rdesktop183" link was where it was more usable for me.

[oldos2er]

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