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!

Unable to send document as attachment from Office 2010

On a Windows 7 x64 machine with Office 2010 x64 installed, I had an issue with not being able to send documents via email.

After looking around for a while, I found this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/outlook/thread/0aefa8d4-a5e5-4295-bea6-6bd48b6d80e6

The fix for me was to:

• Click Start
• Type Default Programs
• Click Set Your Default Programs
• Click Microsoft Outlook
• Click Set this program as default

I can now Save&Send documents as atrtachments.

IE9 Beta Crashes on every page with Intel Express 4 Chipset Graphics

I have a Dell Lattitude E5400 running Windows 7 x64 and decided to try the IE9 beta that has just been released. Unfortuneatly, the browser crashed on every page load. After some investigation I found it was caused by my graphics driver. The E5400 uses the Intel GMA graphics driver from the Express 4 chipset.

Problem driver version was 8.15.10.2141.

Working driver version is 8.15.10.2202.

You can get the new driver here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/download.aspx?url=/19336/a08/Win7Vista_64_151711.exe&DwnldId=19336&lang=eng 

Connnect bug is here:
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/599630/running-internet-explorer-9-with-gpu-accelleration-crashes-the-browser

Ubuntu x64 10.04 - Inital issues

Decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 using an in place upgrade - This failed horribly. There were several errors to do with likewise-open (my laptop belongs in a Windows AD domain). The final one told me that it had left my distro in an unusable state (some 3 hours into the upgrade).

I took the opportunity to reinstall the x64 version of 10.04 but ran into a few issues.

1. The Citrix ICA client install is complicated somewhat by the x64 architecture. The ICA client assumes you're running an x86 environment with 32 libs and a 32bit browser. It's fairly easy to work round - See the previous post.

2. The Cisco VPN client is a bit flakey. I can connect fine from the command line using vpnc, but the Gnome GUI hardly ever works. Sometimes it asks me for the password, only to fail the connection. Sometimes it doesn't ask me anyhting, just tells me the connection has failed. Sometimes it does nothing at all. I would prefer to use the GUI because you get a nice visual app showing if you're connected to the VPN or not.