[needs-packaging] Enhancement Request - Citrix Receiver as Ubuntu Partner package
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
I think this has been raised before, both in Brainstorm and on the back of old bugs... and as community documentation. However, it has also been raised in Citrix's own discussion areas...
Namely, getting Citrix Receiver available for Ubuntu from the repositories.
Would it be possible for more experienced personnel to look into the possibility of Canonical liaising with Citrix so that the Receiver client could be made available as a fully-supported app in the Partner repository? That way, bugfixes could be easily and quickly supplied in the future... and all the dependencies can be handled quickly and easily? And most of all - safely?
IT would help with possible business deployments of Ubuntu. But more prosaically - apparently Citrix have been having issues with building Debian packages - but they supply tarballs and RPMs. Maybe Canonical can help them in this regard?
Speaking from a personal front, I use Citrix Receiver when I work from home - and keeping up to date with bugfixes would be a lot easier if I could just let Update Manager handle that for me.
Current Citrix install process - https:/
Ubuntuforums thread (I do not have access from work)
Current bug - https:/
This was declined for Jaunty - could we get it in for Lucid? Would help with business adoption...
Citrix discussion about *them* wanting it an "sudo apt-get install" away - http://
Citrix knowledgebase article for debian - http://
Could this be looked into, please?
| tags: | added: needs-packaging |
| Changed in ubuntu: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Anthony Ruiz (tony-2rustic) wrote | #1 |
| Alex Cockell (alcockell) wrote | #2 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ubuntu: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| MichaelE (michael-eitelwein) wrote | #4 |
| MichaelE (michael-eitelwein) wrote | #5 |
A win-win for Citrix and Ubuntu/Canonical if a partnership is made. Virtual Desktop infrastructures have opened a niche in the enterprise for Ubuntu as a low cost desktop appliance. It will pave the way for introducing a local Linux desktop, while still supporting the existing Microsoft infrastructure. Ubuntu and Citrix is a perfect desktop solution for Task Workers who only require a simple desktop to access their already thin applications (web, java, Citrix) to avoid the cost of a VDI solution.