Sunday 6 May 2012

Citrix Receiver 12.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 x64


I've been playing with a few other operating systems since I hosed my Windows 7 install on my laptop.
We're a commited XenApp house, so I decided to take another stab at getting the Citrix receiver working on Unbuntu 12.04 LTS.

Here's what I did:

Followed the Ubuntu CitrixICAClientHowTo here:

  • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CitrixICAClientHowTo

The above didn't quite work, so I modified it slightly:

  • Download the latest libmotif3 from:
    • http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/openmotif
    • Currently libmotif3_2.2.3-4_i386.deb
  • Install libmotif3 using 'sudo dpkg -i libbmotif*i386.deb'
  • Link it using 'sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so.3 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4'
  • Download the Citrix Receiver 12.1 client and the USB support package:
    • http://www.citrix.com
    • Downloads
    • Citrix Receiver
    • Linux
    • Download the two x64 packages
  • Install both packages. This will generate errors:
    • The icaclient will complain of an error 2 in post configure
    • The ctxusb package will complain the the icaclient hasn't been configured
  • I found this fix to the error here:
    • http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=306353
  • You need to edit icaclient.postinst:
  • 'sudo vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/icaclient.postinst'
  • Replace 
    • 'echo $Arch|grep "i[0-9]86 > /dev/null' with
    • 'echo $Arch|grep -iE "x86_64" > /dev/null'
  • Run 'sudo  dpkg --configure icaclient'
  • Run 'sudo dpkg --configure ctxusb'
  • Added a couple of extra packages as suggested:
    • 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer'
    • 'sudo apt-get install curl'
  • Running 'sudo ./opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/hdxcheck.sh' generated errors about missing libs
    • These missing libs all appear to be in /lib/i386-linux-gnu and the client works so...
  • I didn't run 'sudo apt-get install libmotif4:i386' as I have no plans to run wfcmgr.

Running through our CAG - I get some SSL errors - I'll explain how I fixed this in the next post

Please let me know if you have any luck or not with the above!


4 comments:

  1. More details on the SSL errors here:
    http://blog.thefoleyhouse.co.uk/2012/05/ssl-error-61-on-citrix-access-gateway.html

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  2. Should be:

    sudo dpkg --configure ctxusb

    not:

    sudo dpg --configure ctxusb

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  3. Pleased to say this also works for Ubuntu v12.10.

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