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Citrix web receiver on raspberry pi

raspi

Citrix web receiver (armhf version) can be installed on raspberry pi( A$48 credit card sized computer) to use as thin client for accessing  virtual machines.

Citrix made armhf version of their Citrix web receiver plugin available in below page:

https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/legacy-receiver-for-linux/receiver-for-linux-131.html

Screenshot from 2016-02-12 19-39-16

 

armhf .deb package in above page can be installed on new raspbian jessie with below command.

sudo dpkg -i icaclientWeb_13.3.0.344519_armhf.deb

If you get certificate error run below command to fix it

sudo ln -sf /etc/ssl/certs/* /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts

If you want to install a proper browser, you can refer below post for instructions on  how to install chromium(open source version of popular chrome browser)  on rasbian jessie.

http://conoroneill.net/running-the-latest-chromium-45-on-debian-jessie-on-your-raspberry-pi-2/

Update: Chromium was added into Raspbian from PIXEL release.