Installing Citrix Receiver on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Serge Y. Stroobandt

Copyright 2014–2015, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

This page still needs to be written up. Nonetheless, below instructions work for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Introduction

Citrix Receiver for Linux, is also known under the name “Citrix ICA Client” as well as its package name icaclient,
Citrix is one of the worst companies when it comes to taking care of GNU/Linux support.

Multiarch

Assuming amd64,i386 multiarch

$ dpkg --print-architecture
amd64

$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
i386

If this is not the case,

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Dependencies

If you want to use wfcmgr, install required library:

$ sudo apt-get --yes install libmotif4

or, 32-bit libraries for 64-bit systems ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 libmotif4:i386 are used by Citrix Receiver.

$ sudo apt-get --yes install ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 libmotif4:i386

Download & installation

The only version of icaclient to work well on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is icaclient_12.0.0_i386.deb, independently of whether your system is 32- or 64-bit.

Configuring Firefox

Attempt to access your Citrix site. If Firefox prompts you to open a *.ica file, choose to open it with /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica.sh, and tell Firefox to do this automatically from now on.

Missing certificates

Note that the ICA client for GNU/Linux is missing lots of certificates. you may need to copy in your CA’s root certificates, e.g.

$ sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts

Accessing your local drive

Run the Citrix Client Manager

$ /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr &

Choose Tools > Settings > Preferences > Drive Mapping
Choose settings similar to the attached screen-shot
The Read & Write Access options have 3 settings - enabled, disabled X, and prompt ?
Click the Apply button, then OK

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