I recently wiped my machine and did a fresh install of Heron. I am yet to put citrix back on here but I will give your method a shot and update my procedures where necessary

Thank you for sharing

I did all the updates at the top, then visited my work’s citrix (4.5 servers) web logon page and on the bottom right there were links for ICA client 10 linux x86 and Arm.

I clicked the x86 one and it saved to my desktop. I double clicked on the box icon (tar.gz) and it opened in a packaging window. I hit extract, and it spilled its guts onto my desktop.

I double clicked the “setupwfc” and chose the “Run in Terminal” button. In a small black window it asked me a series of simple questions, like:
“Do you want to install or exit?”
“Do you agree to that we own this code?”
“Do you want to install it in the default location?”
“Do you want to integrate with KDE and Gnome?”

It installed, and then offered the “install or exit” choice again and I exited.

I then logged into our citrix web site and clicked on the application I wanted to access, and it worked perfectly, just as smoothly and almost as easily as a fresh windows setup. Didn’t have to install any extra packages, reboot the box or the Firefox, or even sudo my password (it installed into my user folder, just for that account).

Hella nice new client Citrix!

I had tried many other instructions and yours is the only one that worked.

Once again thank you so much for adding your comments here. I have yet to install the client on Heron, have not had the time yet.

I will write up a new tutorial for Hardy Heron using your comments as a starting place. If you drop me your website/email address I will make sure you get credited for your input.

I will look into the certificate issue when I do my install, I will post my findings in the new tute.

Thanks again

The libxaw6 package is no longer required.

Hardy’s default browser is Firefox 3. The plugin location has changed yet again (at least for me). So the second link is now:

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


I tried starting the client without the Thawte certificate. I still get this error message:

You have not chosen to trust "Thawte Premium Server CA", the issuer of the server's security certificate (SSL error 61).


I suppose it depends on your server configuration. If you Google, you’ll find that others have similar problems.

Although I followed the drive mapping directions again this time. Drive mapping is not working for me. I will update when I get it working.

Once again, thanks for the installation guide.

Thank you for updating me with the info that worked for you. I will admit that I wrote this primarily for Feisty, and all worked after upgrading to Gutsy, with a work colleague also implying that it worked without issue.

I will take your comments on board and probably write a separate tutorial for Gutsy after testing it.

As for the root certificate, I have never come across that nor would I like to advocate anyone getting it until it is verified. I will take a look and post my findings here in the comments. This of course does not stop anyone using it, I would just like to check it out for myself.

When I tried to start the client, I got an error about “You have chosen not to trust…” The solution to that was to go here: http://www.thawte.com/roots/ and download their root certificates. The one I needed was ThawtePremiumServerCA.cer. After unzipping the supplied certificates, I copied the one I wanted to
/usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts renaming it to ThawtePremiumServerCA.crt along the way.

In SLED10 SP1, I had to edit .ICAClient/wfclient.ini to tell it about the new certificate, but in Ubuntu I didn’t. Also, in Gutsy, the client opened automatically without having to chose wfica.