HOWTO: Install Citrix Client

[rsay]

I was trying to get citrix installed to connect with my office and it is working, but I sort of patched together the idea from several different places that I found with google. I thought if I put down what I did I might save somebody some time and maybe somebody smart could tell me why this worked. BTW, I use firefox as a browser.

1. I went to citrix.com and downloaded the linux client version 8.0

2. I untarred it in my home directory (right click, extract here)

3. sudo apt-get install libxaw6 # not sure if this was necessary

4. sudo apt-get install mozilla # this was definitely necessary

5. cd linuxx86.tar.gz_FILES # the directory created in #2

6. sudo ./setupwfc # follow onscreen instruction to install

7. close firefox if it was open, re-open and connect to citrix server


I hope this will be a helpful starting point.

[rsay]

I tried setting this up on another system and the plugin didn't show up in firefox. I manually applied the link and all was well.

ln -s /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/npica.so

[draconas]

Okay. I did the top part. I can get the login page for my company's NFusion site. I log in, the published apps appear. When I click on one of the links, a smaller Citrix client window pops up, then disappears followed by nothing else. I tried running the link command in the reply but get the following error:

ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory

Any thoughts?

[rsay]

For me, the battle was won once the small citrix client window popped up. There must be something different about their server. You might find out from your admins what version of the client you need for your company. I would also google the error message and see if there is any info out there on it.

[bgrant75]

In relation to connecting to a citrix server please note that when you access the citrix server using Ubuntu you will get a temp licence. YOU MUST alert your Net Admin so he can make the necessary arrangements for you to have a payed for licence.

Remember you are connecting to a M$ server and hence you will need to pay the toll for a terminal server Cal.

The temp licence work for 60 day default and may vary...ask you Net Admin.

I only know this cause I have been using Hoary for the last 2 months solid in my M$ enviroment and travell and got caught out with no access.

BG

[draxula]

Hi,

I got Citrix 8.x working in Hoary Preview, but now when I run wfcmr I get the following error:

stephan@stephan-x64:~$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
Warning: Locale not supported for XmbTextListToTextProperty
Warning: Cannot convert XmString to type compound text string
Segmentation fault


Any ideas?
Might be something stupid

Stephan

[joplass]

Guys,
Please I need help. I install citrix fine but I can't connect to my company server. Is there a trick here? Or can someone please walk me through the configuration process?
Thanks,

[lostrone]

Hi rsay,

first of all: thanks very much for your useful howto.

In my case, I had to do the modification, instead
4. sudo apt-get install mozilla
I had to
4. sudo apt-get install mozilla-firefox

But in addition to that, I encountered the problem when starting the Citrix "You have not chosen to trust xyz, the issuer of the server's security certificate".
Firefox HAS this certificate already built in, so that it took a while to find the problems base and solution under the following link:
"http://www.thedance.net/~roth/CAC/citrixlinux/"
It describes, that the certificate has to be stored also and explecitely under /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts

After this final step of copying the specific .crt file into this location, everything works fine.

Thanks and
Best regards,
L.

[bognare]

hi,

I am now in this forum, and this is my first reply.

when i want to start setupwfc i get an error:

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bognare@Joey:~/Citrix/linuxx86/linuxx86.cor$ ./setupwfc
cat: /home/bognare/Citrix/linuxx86/linuxx86.cor/./pkginf/V*: No such file or directory

This installation is not the correct type for a Linux (x86) workstation.
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Can somebody help me, what is the problem. I have ubuntu hoary.

[quozl]

when i want to start setupwfc i get an error:

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bognare@Joey:~/Citrix/linuxx86/linuxx86.cor$ ./setupwfc
cat: /home/bognare/Citrix/linuxx86/linuxx86.cor/./pkginf/V*: No such file or directory

This installation is not the correct type for a Linux (x86) workstation.
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Can somebody help me, what is the problem. I have ubuntu hoary.

I'm getting the same error.