Installing Citrix Client in Slackware 13.37/current
 

Our company uses citrix so that we can do our work remotely. They didn't allow direct remote connections.

When I try to install critix client application, is says it requires OpenMotiff and OpenMotiff conflicts with a package shipped by slackware (forgot the name).

Need your tips guys, especially for those who successfully installed citrix in their Slackware box.

thanks

depending on the package it conflicts with, it might be okay to simply uninstall it. Not everything that ships with slackware is 100% essential.

We'd really need to know the name of the package before being sure of course

Not entirely true. I removed everything that had to do with bluetooth and my system is just fine.

thats what I'm saying. Some things can be removed without any problems. But if the conflict the OP described is with gcc, for example, removal won't be as simple an option.

God I read your post backwards... no more coffee and time for bed.
Sorry.

LOL

Hi all,

It conflicts with lesstif as stated here: http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...ies/openmotif/

I use the Citrix client myself in the course of my work.

You need to remove the lesstif package in Slackware and replace that with the openmotif package that you can find here for instance: http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/openmotif/

Note that the Citrix client is only available as 32bit binaries, so if you are running Slackware64 (as I do) you also have to install my multilib packages (http://slackware.com/~alien/multilib/) and a converted 32bit openmotif package (the 64bit openmotif package does not work with that 32bit Citrix client).

The openmotif libraries are mostly compatible with the lesstif libraries which you removed, but there will be some (rarely used) programs in Slackware that stop working after you remove lesstif.

Eric

Hi all,

Removed lesstif and install openmotif from sbo. I'm now having issues with certificates not trusted. Marking this as solved.

Thanks all

To cure the certificates issue, do the following:

Create a certificate directory like this (assuming you installed the Citrix client into /usr/lib/ICAClient/):
Then, copy or create (or create a symlink in that directory) for the CA certificate your client is complaining about. In my case, that was the Thawte Premium Server cert:

Eric

Thanks Eric,

Did that already and made my successful connection.

Although this thread is a few months old, it seems relevant for my question, rather than starting a new one. Since this thread, it appears that the citrix listener is now available in 64 bit format. Unfortunately, it only comes in .deb and .rpm flavours at the moment. I see that Slack 13.37 has the rpm program, so I assume I could use that to install the .rpm package. I guess I'll need to use Alien's openmotif package (thanks for all the packages you've done, your multilib stuff and wiki was a life-saver).

Anyway, has anyone tried the 64 bit version, or gotten it to work?

try src2pkg on the rpm.

I have removed the lesstif packages and installed the 64 bit openmotif from Alien's site and converted the 32 bit into a compat32 package (according to his instructions) and installed it. I downloaded the 32 bit tar.gz version of Citrix Receiver and ran the setup program as root.

When I click on an .ica link from firefox, I simply get prompted to download or choose a program to run, so clearly the plugin did not get to the right place. I put a sym link in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins to what I think is the plugin npica.so.

Any advice?