[ubuntu netbook remix] How to Install Citrix ICA client (Xenapp) on Ubuntu netbook remix

[varspare]

Hi all,

I did this last night and documented it (force of habit) and one of my collegues suggested I post it up here for anyone who might need it.

This is a step-by-step guide to installing the citrix ICA client on Ubuntu it has worked on 8.10 and 9.10 for me, and will hopefully save you a bit of time.

(quick note on formating- anything with a #(hash) should be typed on the command line and without the #(hash) character.)



How to install the citrix xenapp client on ubuntu

1. point your browser to the citrix download site at
http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/dow...ductId=186#top

and download the tar.gz file, which should give you linuxx86-11.0.140395.tar.gz

2.point your browser to the security certificates at
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comput...nux_client.htm
and download both;
thawte-server-ca.crt
and
ThawteRoot.crt

3. put all 3 of these files in ~/Downloads
i.e.
~/Dowloads/linuxx86-11.0.140395.tar.gz
~/Dowloads/thawte-server-ca.crt
~/Dowloads/ThawteRoot.crt

4. Open a terminal

5. using the terminal we will install Openmotif (at the time of writing version 3 is the latest available)
in the terminal type
#sudo apt-get install libmotif3

(I was able to omit this step (6.) on 9.10 but I'll leave it in for completeness)
6. with that done we need to create a new symbolic link so that the menu shortcut will launch.
again from the terminal
#sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.so.3.0.2 /usr/lib/libXm.so.4

7.Now back to our ~/Downloads folder
#cd ~/Downloads

8.We now need to unpack our Citrix client installer
gunzip will uncompress the file
#gunzip ./linux86-11.0.140395.tar.gz
and tar will remove the packaging
#tar -xvf ./linux86-11.0.140395.tar

9.to install the Citrix client type we need to launch the installer
#sudo ./setupwfc

10. select option 1 to install the client

11. when prompted enter the location to install the client as;
/usr/lib/ICAClient

12. press y when prompted to agree to install the client

12. press 1 when prompted to accept the license conditions

13. otherwise accept the defaults

14. once the installation is complete exit the installer this will be from the options screen so select option 3 when ready.

15. now we need to setup the SSL certificates by copying them into the newly created directory if everything has gone to plan this should be /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/

#sudo cp ~/Downloads/thawte-server-ca.crt /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/thawte-server-ca.crt
#sudo cp ~/Downloads/ThawteRoot.crt /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/ThawteRoot.crt

16. The citrix client should now be working properly so point your web browser to your Citrix Access Gateway login and try it out.




Attached is a tar of all the files I used (except for the xenapp installer) with a copy of the instructions. To untar it run
#tar -xvf citrix_install_linux.tar

[nkle004]

Fantastic work, I am new and it really helped me figure out how to install Citrix.
I have one trouble here I am not able to execute step 5. I am getting some error saying motiff not found.
Do I need to do anything before running that step 5 ? I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and this is my installation. The first thing I did is to install Citrix because I can't leave without it I have to do work from home almost twice a week.

Thanks in advance for your help

[varspare]

Hi

glad to have helped you

one thing I've noticed is your error message;

Originally Posted by nkle004 I am not able to execute step 5. I am getting some error saying motiff not found.

I'm presuming slightly that it looks like this;
user@computer-name:~$ sudo apt-get install libmotiff3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package libmotiff3

could it be a typo there is only the one 'f'

if you copy the line (excluding the hash) and paste it into the terminals command line and execute it will ask for you're password then hunt through the repositories and then install the libmotif3 package.

unless you've already successfully installed it in which case it'll look like this;

user@computer-name:~$ sudo apt-get install libmotif3
[sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libmotif3 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
user@computer-name:~$


Hope that helps