Hi, Charlie, dram.

FWIW My Synaptic is set pretty wide and is up-to-date and I get no claws
or rdesktop entries in it.

The archive for rdesktop on sourceforge leads me to believe it is inactive
isofar as development is concerned.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...sktop-announce

dram's advice is crucial, I often forget on a new install to reload Synaptic before I begin.

Cheers.