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Note: You can follow the same instructions for the Oracle Java 7 JRE. If you do, ignore the steps for javac. Previously, I have relied on following instructions from Alexander Holbreich’s blog on how to install the latest Oracle Java JDK on Debian Wheezy (amd64). There are a few steps that are a little outdated but overall, it works well. Since I find myself updating Java fairly often as newer versions are released, I figured that it would be worthwhile to write down the updated steps: ...

So since wheezy has finally been released as the new ‘stable’ version of Debian, I went ahead and revisited vmware-view-client on wheezy. I ran into a number of problems Basically, the solution is to use multi-arch and libssl0.9.8 from Ubuntu (i386). You will want the i386 packages even if you are using the amd64 build of Debian wheezy. Please note that if you have anything that relies on the Debian squeeze version of libssl0.9.8, installing the Ubuntu version of libssl0.9.8 as seen below will break those packages and apt will want to remove them! If you get an error in apt asking to remove a number of packages or needing to run apt-get install -f to fix broken dependencies, this is the case. Removing the Ubuntu version of libssl0.9.8 and reinstalling libssl0.9.8 from squeeze will resolve that. ...