Monday, October 29, 2007

Installing the Citrix ICA Client on Ubuntu

Here's how I installed the Citrix ICA client on Ubuntu 7.10 (and other versions for that matter):
  • Download the latest Linux client from here (get the tar.gz version) into a newly created directory.
  • Extract the en.linuxx86.tar.gz file (or whatever it was called if not this) from the directory where you saved it.
  • Now run the setup program from the terminal (sudo ./setupwfc)
  • Follow the prompts to install (or remove if need be) the Citrix ICA client. I chose to not use the defaults and installed mine to /opt/citrixICAclient instead just because that's generally where I install anything that isn't from an apt package.
  • If you use a non-default path as I did, the installer says you need to create the ICAROOT environment variable. I didn't do that initially and it seemed to work fine, but I eventually added this line to /etc/profile: export ICAROOT=/opt/citrixICAclient
  • Finally, to get the Citrix Presentation Server Client (the part that includes the Connection Center) to actually work, you need to install the motif-clients (and dependencies) package.
  • Firefox should be good to go with ICA goodness now, enjoy.

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