Monday 5 November 2007

Citrix Metraframe client on Linux

For a software demo we're having, I needed to install a Citrix Metaframe client. My desktop of choice is Linux and so I downloaded the linux version of the ICA client from http://www.citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?dID=2755&downloadID=3323&pID=186

The software installed fine, as per the Admin guide, but there were a couple of extra bits needed.

Firstly the motif libraries. As I'm running debian etch, and there's no longer a debian version of the motif libraries, I had to download the .deb file for these from an old distro (sarge) and use dpkg to install it.

libmotif3_2.2.3-1_i386.deb was the file in question.

Then, having used Iceweasle (Firefox under any other name) to connect to the citrix box, I was getting 'You have not chosen to trust "Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1", the issuer of the server's security certificate.' when launching one of the applications.

The solution was to go to
http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/index.asp

and download the Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1 certificates (note - use right click save as other wise you'll just be trying to install them in the browser) and then copy the files to
/usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore and restart Iceweasle

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