Citrix Receiver

[daveysprocketbrew]

Hi all,

My wife, who is a teacher just received an email stating that their district will be using a Citrix remote access server and gave instructions for everybody to install the Citrix Receiver Client at home for Windows and Mac users.  Guess what?  We ONLY use PCLinuxOS at home (kids included)!!  I see that it looks like there is a Linux client on their website https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/receivers-by-platform/receiver-for-linux-121.html .  Do you think this might work? and if so, how do I get it onto my system to see?  Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

-Dave

[1Canuck]

I don't have an answer to your question, but I'm in the same boat as you. I work at home two days a week and my employer requires that I connect to their network via a Citrix log-in. I've downloaded the 64-bit, rpm version of the receiver here (https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/receivers-by-platform/receiver-for-linux-121.html) and at this point am stumped at what to do next, though admittedly I'm a complete Linux newbie. If you managed to figure out how to install it (and assuming it worked) I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know!

[Old-Polack]

You d/l the proper RPM package for your system (x86 or 64bit x86) then install it, as root, from the directory containing the package, with the command;

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh ./*.rpm                <Enter>

[GermanTux]

Although Citrix technically does provide a client for Linux, it is very buggy, and will only work sporadically.  For example, it stops working after you launch a single application.  And that application that you successfully launched - sometimes will freeze.  I have gotten it installed inside other distros. 

In the end it was not worth the aggravation.  Which is why I use an XP VM with VirtualBox for work purposes.  It works flawlessly, and removes the need for an (annoying) dual boot process.