Citrix ICA Client 10 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

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Latest version of the script is available always at http://codtech.com/downloads/citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu and previous versions are always available at the same folder citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu-version (i.e.: citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu-0.4)


This covers the installation of Citrix ICA Client 10 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. If you find any problem with this script or something that's not covered please let us know so we can improve it. There's a similar article covering the installation of Citrix ICA Client 10 on Fedora Core 6.


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citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu

If you're having problems running Citrix ICA Client 10.0 for Linux in Ubuntu you can give citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu script a try. The intention of this script is to solve most common problems found in running the client. Download the script from http://codtech.com/downloads/citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu.

You must have Citrix ICA Client 10.0 for Linux installed before running the script. If Citrix is installed in a system location use sudo to run it, and if the installation directory is not /usr/lib/ICAClient set ICAROOT=/path/to/your/dir in the environment.

diego@bruce$ export ICAROOT=/usr/lib/ICAClient
diego@bruce$ sudo bash /tmp/citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu

Troubleshooting

Fonts problem

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The citrix-icaclient-10-ubuntu script version 0.4 (or higher) solves all of the reported font problems

Sometimes, the client has problem finding usable fonts. Run

diego@bruce$ xset fp rehash

to solve this issue

This is a working font path

diego@bruce$ xset q
...
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/

Keyboard layout

If you are experiencing problems with keyboard layouts, be sure that your settings are correct.

Equifax root certificate not found

Download the certificate from Root Certificates Repositosy' (see #External links) and copy to /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystores/cacert and rename it to have the .crt extension.

External links

Citrix ICA Client 10 for Linux
http://citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?dID=2755&downloadID=3323&pID=186#top
http://citrixdemos.com/Citrix/ALogin/ICAWEB_common/en/icaunix/linuxx86.tar.gz
Root Certificates Repository
http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/index.asp
Scalable bitmap font names reported but not usable after failed XSetFontPath() call
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/52163
Ubuntu forums posts
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2430567