VM /ETC

Just a quick post to explain how to use Synaptic Package Manager to install the the VMware View Open Client on Ubuntu. I’m using 64 bit Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR)for the example in this post. I would expect that as desktop virtual infrastructure gains momentum more and more users will find themselves connecting to corporate desktop images from a personal device – possibly running Linux! Ubuntu Netbook Remix is one example of a number of Linux operating systems that could be used to do this!

VMware View Install Steps Overview:

1. Open Synaptic, update the packages, and then search for “vmware”. Synaptic can be found on UNR in the System group under administration.
2. Mark the vmware-open-view-client package for installation.
3. Note the dependencies. The VMware View client uses an RDP connection to the vDesktop. The rdesktop package is needed.  The project’s page on Google Code points this out as an important dependency too.
4. After completing the download and installs I found the icon in the Internet Menu Group of Ubuntu Netbook.

Here’s some screen shots of the process, but unfortunately I could not figure out how to get them in the correct order in this album. :/

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updated 050110 – corrected the previously incomplete thought about the dependency on rdesktop in step 3

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